Installing the Native Development Kit (NDK)
If you want to do any low-level exploitation or development on your Android device, you will need to make sure that you can write applications at a lower level on the Android platform. Low level means development in languages like C/C++ using compilers that are built to suit the embedded platform and its various nuances.
What's the difference between Java and the native/low-level programming languages? Well, this topic alone could fill an entire book. But to state just the bare surface-level differences, Java code is compiled and statically—meaning the source code is analyzed—checked before being run in a virtual machine. For Android Java, this virtual machine is called the Dalvik—more on this later. ...
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