[Ologn]

> how clunky NDK happens to be versus the C and C++ experience on Apple and Microsoft platforms

Also in 2012 there was just gcc support, and by 2015 gcc was deprecated for Clang, creating a lot of extra work for app developers due to that (technical? commercial?) decision.

[pjmlp]

Officially it was technical, although I bet it was actually the same reason Apple got rid of GCC.