Android NDK: From Elementary to Export Episode 8

Now we can generate the so file.

First of all, add these code into build.gradle file of your project:

tasks.withType(JavaCompile) {
    compileTask -> compileTask.dependsOn CopyToJniLibs
}
task ndkBuild(type: Exec, description: 'Compile JNI source via NDK') {
    Properties properties = new Properties()
    properties.load(project.rootProject.file('local.properties').newDataInputStream())
    def ndkDir = properties.getProperty('ndk.dir')
    commandLine "$ndkDir/ndk-build.cmd", "NDK_PROJECT_PATH=$projectDir.absolutePath\\build", "APP_BUILD_SCRIPT=$projectDir.absolutePath\\src\\main\\jni\\Android.mk"
}

task CopyToJniLibs(type: Copy, dependsOn: 'ndkBuild', description: 'copy the native libs to jniLibs') {
    from fileTree(dir: file(buildDir.absolutePath + '/libs'), include: '**/*.so')
    into file('src/main/jniLibs')
}

In the terminal prompt in Android Studio, we can simply enter following command to generate the so file:

gradlew ndkBuild

gradlew CopyToJniLibs

Finally, we can find so file in src/main/jniLibs