how to Build C/C++ Executables for android using ANDROID STUDIO?

Question

When using Eclipse,we can build binary executables by edited Android.mk as follow:

LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)

include $(CLEAR_VARS)

LOCAL_MODULE    := Test
LOCAL_SRC_FILES := Test.cpp

include $(BUILD_EXECUTABLE) // here is the KEY!

At the end, how to Build C/C++ Executables for android using ANDROID STUDIO? Thanks.

Answer 1

For now Android Studio doesn't officially support NDK, but you can add a gradle task to take care of building your C/C++ stuff; something like that :

task buildNativeLibs(type: Exec){
    workingDir './my_dir'
    commandLine 'cmd', '/c', 'ndk-build'
}

preBuild.dependsOn(buildNativeLibs)

Note that this is for Windows, for Unix systems the commandLine will be more like

commandLine './ndk-build.sh'

Be careful that sometimes gradle is very with annoying environment vars (doesn't always find exe that are exposed through PATH), so if you have issues try pasting the ndk-build executable in the workingDir

Hope this helps!