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Android NDK
The Android Native Development Kit a “companion tool” used only in conjunction with Android SDK that allows developers to build performance-critical portions of their apps in native code, using languages such as C and C++.
| First released | 2009 |
| Developed by | |
| Latest stable version | Android NDK r24 |
| Open-source | No |
| Used by | Unity, Unreal Engine, Google |
Interesting facts
Google recommends the use of the NDK only in rare cases, e.g:
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You need to increase performance (for example, sorting a large amount of data).
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Use a third-party library. For example, a lot of things are already written in C / C ++ languages and you just need to use existing material.
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Programming at a low level (for example, everything that goes beyond Dalvik).