I don&#x27;t mean it is going away. What I mean is this attitude:<p>&quot;The NDK is not appropriate for most novice Android programmers, and has little value for many types of Android apps.&quot;<p>&quot;Squeeze extra performance out of a device for computationally intensive applications like games or physics simulations.&quot;<p>&quot;Reuse your own or other developers&#x27; C or C++ libraries.&quot;<p>Versus the Windows Phone and iOS that allow full use of the OS APIs via their Objective-C++ and C++&#x2F;CX, instead of a thin set of libraries + JNI boilerplate.<p>Then we have the way the whole Eclipse CDT -&gt; Android Studio process has been handled and Gradle still cannot handle the majority of ndk builds.