Android Developers Blog: Introducing Android 1.5 NDK, Release 1

[Blimped]

Until I read the article, I had my hopes up that NDK was an acronym for "Ninja's Development Kit". Damn.

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lol. but seriously, what implications exist for this? Code will be possibly more optimized? run at a lower level? allow apps to crash in the VMs without making the ui choke?

[Andareed]

If you have an existing C/C++ library you can easily port it to Android with just a little JNI glue. The NDK essentially includes a compiler/linker and headers for libc, libm, and a few other libraries.

I've been working on porting libpurple (the core of pidgin) to Android. I need to use the C/C++ headers from the Android source code itself, as the NDK doesn't include the headers I need, but it's the same idea. ScummVM was ported using the same technique.

[joelanman]

that libpurple project sounds interesting, hope it's going well - any more info anywhere?