The Android Native Development Kit (NDK) - Beginning Android 3D Game Development - page 392

Supported operating systems include the following:

 Windows XP (32-bit) or Vista (32- or 64-bit)

 Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later (x86 only)

 Linux (32- or 64-bit; Ubuntu 8.04, or other Linux distributions using

GLibc 2.7 or later)

Required development tools:

 For all development platforms, GNU Make 3.81 or later is required. Earlier

versions of GNU Make might work but have not been tested.

 A recent version of awk (either GNU Awk or Nawk) is also required.

 For Windows, Cygwin 1.7 or higher is required. The NDK will not work with

Cygwin 1.5 installations.

The Cygwin program can be downloaded from www.cygwin.com .

Note

Android Platform Compatibility
Native code generated by the NDK targeting a specific CPU architecture requires a minimum
Android operating system version depending on the CPU targeted.

 ARM, ARM-NEON targeted code requires Android 1.5 (API Level 3) and higher.

Practically speaking, nearly 100% of current available Android devices are at
least 1.5 or greater.

 x86 targeted code requires Android 2.3 (API Level 9) and higher.

 MIPS targeted code requires Android 2.3 (API Level 9) and higher.

Installing the Android NDK
The main Android NDK installation file is located on the official Android web site at www.android.com .
The NDK is a zip file that you will have to download and uncompress onto your hard drive.
(See Figure 11-1 .)