Android Native Development Kit Cookbook

Chapter 8. Porting and Using the Existing Libraries with Android NDK

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Porting a library as a shared library module with the Android NDK build system
• Porting a library as a static library module with the Android NDK build system
• Porting a library with its existing build system using the Android NDK toolchain
• Using a library as a prebuilt library
• Using a library in multiple projects with import-module
• Porting a library that requires RTTI, exception, and STL support

Introduction

There are many C/C++ libraries for the Desktop computing world. These libraries can save us a huge amount of effort if we can reuse them on an Android platform. Android NDK makes this possible. In this chapter, we will discuss ...