The Android NDK and its new support in Android Studio/gradle-experimental plugin (en)

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Shows concrete migration steps: use android studio with Gradle 2.8 and switch modules to the gradle-experimental plugin (com.android.model.application) while keeping app modules on the stable plugin if desired; edit JNI code in-project and debug native code with the lldb debugger (native run configuration), or fall back to ndk-build/Android.mk for complex toolchains. Demonstrates compiling multi-ABI builds, generating split apks/version codes per ABI, and warns native-dependency and include-directory support remain fragile but simple cases work.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:15MASTERING THE NDK
3. 4:48Java Native Interface UNI
4. 8:06Mapping C/C++ implementations to Java methods
5. 11:15Classic execution flow

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