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Re:SQLite and Android N (2016) by pjmlp on Friday January 27, 2017 @12:38PM (#13501197)
It is not weird if you think they would rather not have it at all.

It wasn't there until 2.2, only got added due to community pressure and they always did the minimum amount of work.

When the migration to Android Studio was announced, we got left with no migration plan.

Only after JET Brains announced CLion, almost 2 years later, did they announce the migration to Studio.

Likewise they moved into Gradle without plan for C NDK support and it took three generations of build tools until they decided to settle on CMake.

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Re:SQLite and Android N (2016) by iainmerrick on Friday January 27, 2017 @12:48PM (#13501286)
Yes! But why?

As an earlier commenter mentioned, games are one of the biggest app categories and many games rely on the NDK. Pro audio could be another big category, but I think Apple has the market sewn up there because Android is still way behind.

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Re:SQLite and Android N (2016) by pjmlp on Friday January 27, 2017 @01:22PM (#13501493)
I guess, because a few key figures come from Sun's Java team and WebOS, with politics having a big role.
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