What does the new NDK plugins do?

Question

I was installing the last ADT version on eclipse and there's some NDK plugins (https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/). Does anybody know what is does? Does it allow eclipse do compile native code? How do you use it? I can't find any documentation out there.

Answer 1

NDK is a toolset that allows you to write part of your android app using native code in languages such as C and C++. Many developers will probably not need this for android development, however, for accessing certain libraries and optimizing performance it can be useful.
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