Comment by flohofwoe
6 months ago
> You can use BSD Make instead of Gradle, isn't UNIX great?
So the NDK officially supports creating an APK just with a Makefile? That would be news to me (and great news at that).
It is possible to cobble together a build process that directly calls various Android SDK command line tools to build an APK directly from a C/C++ build tool without involving Gradle, but as far as I know, most of those invoked cmdline tools are deprecated and building APKs outside Gradle is not 'supported' by the Android SDK/NDK (e.g. it may stop working at any time).
No, I wasn't talking about APKs.
The NDK supports building shared objects with Makefiles, via ndk-build.
The original plan to deprecate ndk-build was reversed, due to the complaints.
Pretty much official,
https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/build
I also stand corrected, it is actually GNU Make, not BSD Make.