Many engines used to make Android games use the Android Native Development Kit (NDK), because the NDK allows developers to write code in C/C++ that compiles to native code. This means that NDK ...

it isn’t the only way to write apps for Android. Alongside the SDK, Google also has the Native Development Kit (NDK) which enables app developers to use native-code languages such as C and C++.

The Android 16 Beta will start in January. Platform Stability with “final SDK/NDK APIs and also final internal APIs and app-facing system behaviors” is coming with Beta 3 in March. Afterwards ...