Android NDK Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Time for action – preparing Ubuntu for Android development

To develop with the Android NDK on Linux, we need to set up a few prerequisites: Glibc, Make, OpenJDK, and Ant.

1. From Command Prompt, check whether Glibc (the GNU C standard library) 2.7 or later, usually shipped with Linux systems by default, is installed:

   ldd -–version
   

   
2. Make is also required to build native code. Install it from the build-essential package (requires administrative privilege):

   sudo apt-get install build-essential
   

   Run the following command to ensure Make is correctly installed, in which case its version is displayed:

   make –version
   

3. On 64-bit Linux systems, install the 32-bit ...