The NDK is not part of their priorities indeed (although to be fair it seems that things are slowly getting better with a team dedicated to integrating Clion).<p>They are smart engineers though and I have no doubt that if C++ had been the best choice for the platform, we would not be writing apps in java ...<p>tbh, I am really tired of the simplistic &#x27;because java&#x27; argument with nothing to back it up ...<p>I have no love for the language (although I think it gets more flak than it deserves) but I have spent a lot of time working on the performances of Android apps and none of the issues I have fixed would have been any different in another language.