which is not usually done except where you need to wring every last bit of performance out of the device I think that's overstating it a bit. The NDK is very h

which is not usually done except where you need to wring every last bit of performance out of the device I think that's overstating it a bit. The NDK is very heavily used by the overwhelming majority of premium games, not least because it allows for significant code reuse between Android and iOS. The release of the NDK was the beginning of a massive quality app explosion on the platform.