Porting a command-line executable to Android with an NDK build system

This recipe discusses how to port a command-line executable to Android with an NDK build system. We will use the open source Fugenschnitzer program (fusch) as an example.

Getting ready

You should read the Porting a library as a static library with an Android NDK build system recipe in Chapter 8, Porting and Using Existing Libraries with Android NDK, before going through this one.

How to do it...

The following steps describe how to port the fusch program to Android with an NDK build system:

1. Create an Android application named PortingExecutable with native support. Set the package name as cookbook.chapter9.portingexecutable. Refer to the Loading native libraries and registering native methods recipe in Chapter 2, Java Native Interface, if you want more detailed instructions.

2. Remove the existing content under the jni folder of the project.

3. Download the source code of the fusch library and command-line application from http://fugenschnitzer...