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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 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.

Native app development is the creation of software programs that run on specific devices and platforms . You can build native apps for desktops, smart TVs, and all kinds of gadgets, the most popular target devices are smartphones.