Setting up the Android Native Development Kit (NDK)

The Android NDK environment is essential for native-code language development. Here, we will outline the setup steps for the Mac OS X platform again.

How to do it...

To install the Android NDK, follow these steps:

1. Download the NDK installation package from the Android developer website at http://dl.google.com/android/ndk/android-ndk-r10e-darwin-x86_64.bin.

2. Move the setup file into the same installation folder:

   mv android-ndk-r10e-darwin-x86_64.bin 3rd_party/android 

3. Set the permission of the file to be an executable:

   cd 3rd_party/android && chmod +x android-ndk-r10e-darwin-x86_64.bin

4. Run the NDK installation package:

   ./android-ndk-r10e-darwin-x86_64.bin

5. The installation process is fully automated and the following output confirms the successful installation of the Android NDK:

   ...
   Extracting  android-ndk-r10e/build/tools
   Extracting  android-ndk-r10e/build/gmsl
   Extracting  android-ndk-r10e/build/core
   Extracting  android-ndk-r10e/build/awk
   Extracting...