Building stuff for android

Question

Hello,

I want to build some libraries into executables that I need to use with my application. For example I need to build the C library slocate, so that I can use it in my application. Another example, I have to build sqlite-3.1 db to be usable with Python from ASE.

How can I go about achieving that?

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

You need to build them using the Android NDK. After you build them into *.so files you can use them in your native code and access that through JNI. It's not as hard as it sounds but it takes a good bit of setup.