rust-mobile/ndk

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Safe Rust bindings to the Android NDK, split into ndk-sys (raw FFI bindings) and ndk (idiomatic safe abstractions). It enables Rust programs and libraries to call Android native APIs directly at the NDK level.

Use cases

• write native android code in rust
• bind android ndk apis from rust
• access android native activity and assets from rust
• build a rust library that runs on android
• use android ndk audio and hardware buffers from rust
• call android ndk c apis safely instead of raw ffi

When to choose

• you are writing Rust that runs natively on Android and needs NDK-level APIs
• you want safe, idiomatic wrappers instead of hand-written FFI over the NDK
• you are building a game engine, multimedia, or low-level component in Rust targeting Android

When to avoid

• you are building a standard Android app whose logic lives in Kotlin/Java against the Android SDK rather than the NDK
• you need a higher-level cross-platform mobile framework with UI tooling
• you target iOS, desktop, or other platforms, since this is Android-only

Facets

library · maturity stable

sdk developer-tools mobile-development android-tools developer-tools rust android-ndk ffi-bindings safe-bindings native-development mobile android

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