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johannesburgel on June 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: My Ubuntu for mobile devices post-mortem analysis

Well, technically you can also just use Vim and a Makefile to write C++ code for Android. SDL2 has backends for all the Android stuff, for example, as does Qt5.

pjmlp on June 21, 2017 [–]

With lots of fun writing JNI wrappers, and wrapping Gradle calls into that Makefile.

Google is pretty clear that the NDK is only intended for writing games, high performance audio, or making native code available to Java.

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