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by double051 4447 days ago
The NDK is a total 'bolt-on' solution to the problem, and support within the Android dev tools is basically non-existent.

The biggest tragedy is that Google had a chance to make a better NDK experience with Android Studio, but instead they chose to ignore it completely. With Eclipse you at least had an official add-on for NDK support, but now you're expected to manage it with your Gradle files by hand. Now, even more than before, you're at the whim of solutions on Stack Overflow.
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mdwrigh2 4447 days ago
NDK support is being worked on. There are samples[1] of the API, but it's largely undocumented and still a work in progress.

There's a reason AS hasn't hit 1.0 yet: it isn't ready.

[1]: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=YW5kcm9pZC...

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pjmlp 4447 days ago
I think having a few ex-Sun Java guys might have influenced that decision. Since all other mobile platforms offer better native support.

This is just my personal opinion.

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