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The Android NDK is a companion tool to the Android SDK that lets you build performance-critical portions of your apps in native code . It provides headers and libraries that allow you to build activities, handle user input, use hardware sensors, access application resources, and more, when programming in C or C++.

Android provides Native Development Kit (NDK) to support native development in C/C++, besides the Android Software Development Kit (Android SDK) which supports Java . [TODO] more. NDK is a complex and advanced topics.

Summary: As of 2019, Google introduced a new NDK “side-by-side” feature which allows you to install multiple NDK versions under the Android SDK directory . All new NDK versions are downloaded to the side-by-side directory and it replaces the old “ndk-bundle” directory.

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.

Android Studio installs all versions of the NDK in the android-sdk /ndk/ directory . To install CMake and the default NDK in Android Studio, do the following: With a project open, click Tools > SDK Manager.