Building Android NDK applications for different CPU features

Many projects use native code to improve performance. One advantage of developing in NDK over SDK is that we can build different packages for different CPUs, which is the topic of this recipe.

Getting ready

Please read the Building Android NDK application for different ABIs recipe before going through this one.

How to do it…

The following steps build Android NDK applications for different CPU features.

  1. At Eclipse, click on File | New | Other. Select Android Project from Existing Code under Android as shown in the following screenshot. Then click on Next:
    How to do it…
  2. Browse to the samples/hello-neon folder ...

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