Building an Android NDK application in Eclipse

The previous recipe discusses how to build an Android NDK application in the command line. This recipe demonstrates how to do it in the Eclipse IDE.

Getting ready

Add NDK Preferences. Start Eclipse, then click on Window | Preferences. In the Preferences window, select NDK under Android. Click on Browse and select the NDK root folder. Click on OK.

Getting ready

How to do it…

The following steps create an NDK project using Eclipse:

  1. Create an Android application named HelloNDKEclipse. Set the package name as cookbook.chapter3. Create an activity named HelloNDKEclipseActivity. Please refer to the Loading native libraries ...

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