Link android.mk to gradle android studio
#LINK ANDROID.MK TO GRADLE ANDROID STUDIO CODE#
How does it work?ĬMake is an external build tool that works alongside Gradle to build your native code and it requires a build script CMakeLists.txt to complete the build process. CMake’s main advantage is that you can use one set of build files for all your targets (Android, Linux, Windows, iOS, etc). So if you are building something new, CMake will be the best choice to start. Why CMake?īecause Google recommended it! Apart from the joke, the ndk-build tool is more or less deprecated and still supported by Android just because of old legacy projects running into it. The default one recommended by Android is CMake, and other most supported build tool is ndk-build. Unlike the unified Gradle build system for Java and Kotlin codes, we have multiple build tools for C/C++ codes. The Native Development Kit (NDK) is a set of tools that allows you to use C and C++ code with Android, and provides platform libraries you can use to manage native activities and access physical device components, such as sensors and touch input To compile that C/C++ code we require NDK (Native Development Kit) bundle from Android SDK package. Because while programming in native code, the source is compiled directly into the machine code for the CPU and not into an intermediate language as Java does. Specially, when you want to ensure extra performance from your Android device then C/C++ codes will be the rescue. Despite having Java and Kotlin for developing applications in Android, often we need to use C/C++ to write part of our application.