In my experience with Android apps, I've almost never had to use the NDK. When I did have to use the NDK, it wasn't because I wanted to code in C/C++---it was b

In my experience with Android apps, I've almost never had to use the NDK. When I did have to use the NDK, it wasn't because I wanted to code in C/C++---it was because there were strong, open-source libraries written in C/C++ that I wanted to use in an app (Though, I have no experience making games on Android). If you want to check out Go, then the Go Tour [1] and the various talks by Rob Pike [2] [3] / Sameer Ajmani [4] are great resources. The Go Tour stands on its own as an interest-building resource; the several programming exercises it has you do are fun and challenging. [1]: http://tour.golang.org/#1 http://tour.golang.org/#1 [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs [3]: http://blog.golang.org/concurrency-is-not-parallelism http://blog.golang.org/concurrency-is-not-parallelism [4]: http://blog.golang.org/advanced-go-concurrency-patterns http://blog.golang.org/advanced-go-concurrency-patterns