Developing for Android on the phone itself

Question

I read about AIDE and it's ability to develop and compile Java directly on Android but what about C support? I read that the PC Android NDK adds full C support only if you wrap it in a dll but a newer version would allow apps to be developed directly in C without any wrapper. Is there anything like that for Android as well? I know of c4droid and it's gcc plugin but I assume that is for developing for x86 and not ARM.

Answer 1

With Android Native Development Kit (NDK) you can implement parts of your application using C. http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html. 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.