Android Native Development Kit Cookbook

Creating a native activity with the native_activity.h interface

The Android native application API allows us to create a native activity, which makes writing Android apps in pure native code possible. This recipe introduces how to write a simple Android application with pure C/C++ code.

Getting ready

Readers are expected to have basic understanding of how to invoke JNI functions. Chapter 2, Java Native Interface, covers JNI in detail and readers are recommended to read the chapter or at least the following recipes before going through the current one:

• Manipulating strings in Android NDK
• Calling instance and static methods in NDK

How to do it…

The following steps to create a simple Android NDK application without a single line of Java code:

1. Create an ...