I am currently using a pure command-line build, with Ninja build files, and a standalone NDK toolchain (https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/standalone_tool

I am currently using a pure command-line build, with Ninja build files, and a standalone NDK toolchain (https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/standalone_toolchain.html https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/standalone_toolchai...). It's a pretty hacky solution but it works and it's very fast. This is for C++ code, which is kind of a special case. Android Studio now has C++ support but I tried it and wasn't impressed. Among other problems, the build process seems to be extremely slow.