What is the difference between Android SDK and NDK? [closed]

Question

I am about to start android application development.

From What is NDK? documentation I was not able to extract the following information:

Does using NDK actually introduce new features comparing to SDK?

I am interested in this because using NDK greatly increases application complexity, so if I am not interested in performance increase, are there other reasons to go for NDK?

What I mean is for example:

-restart phone

• (I know neither SDK nor NDK allows this, I just use it as an example of what I mean) let's say java SDK does not allow this, but some native libraries do - then the answer to my question would be yes, NDK does add some functionality

Thanks in advance for any helpful answers.

Answer 1

You really should use SDK, unless you have a good reason to use NDK. Good reasons may vary, but for example, you could use NDK:

• If you want to use OpenGL ES 2.0 for Android 2.1 (Eclair), it is only avaiable through NDK. The SDK support for OpenGL ES 2.0 began with the Froyo version.

• If you want to use Renderscript

• If you have a great portion of your app's logic written in C/C++