Android NDK advantages and disadvantages [closed]

Question

I am studying Android NDK. What are the advantages and disadvantages of NDK? Are there any good references to study Android NDK?

Answer 1

Have you read the official Android developer page regarding NDK?

Quote:

The Android NDK is a companion tool to the Android SDK that lets you build performance-critical portions of your apps in native code. It provides headers and libraries that allow you to build activities, handle user input, use hardware sensors, access application resources, and more, when programming in C or C++. If you write native code, your applications are still packaged into an .apk file and they still run inside of a virtual machine on the device. The fundamental Android application model does not change.

Using native code does not result in an automatic performance increase, but always increases application complexity. If you have not run into any limitations using the Android framework APIs, you probably do not need the NDK.

So, unless you're doing some very performance intensive stuff that will choke your application when programming in Java, I'd suggest you stay clear of NDK. It's messier and more difficult to write NDK code properly unless you really know what you're doing and have strong knowledge of C and/or C++.