Executing asynchronous work on a native thread
The Android NDK is bundled with the POSIX thread C API that provides an API to create and destroy native threads, native mutual exclusion synchronization primitives, named mutexes, and condition variables, that like Java monitors, allow threads to wait until a change in a resource happens. Apart from this global API, the developer also has access to a higher level C++11 thread API available on clang and gnu_stl C++ Runtimes.
Since both of these frameworks offer the same kind of concurrent functionalities we will use C++11 thread framework for its simplicity and similarity with the Java Thread API.
First, let's update our ndk build.gradle to use the clang C++ Runtime that supports the thread API that ...
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