anybody got experience using Kotlin + JNI on Android? Does it work nicely, or is it smarter to just ...

# android

[lovis]

anybody got experience using Kotlin + JNI on Android? Does it work nicely, or is it smarter to just use plain old Java for those parts of the app?

[gildor]

You can write JNI glue code on Kotlin, no problems there.
Use external modifier instead of native from Java

[gildor]

https://proandroiddev.com/android-ndk-interaction-of-kotlin-and-c-c-5e19e35bac74

[gildor]

Also, there is very old repo from @ilya.chernikov with a bunch of NDK samples
But it’s outdated (uses pre 1.0 modifer native)
Maybe make sense to update it with new Android and new Kotlin, good way to contribute

[gildor]

Also hope one day Kotlin/Native can be used to easily declare NDK API and use from Kotlin JVM

[lovis]

thanks a lot! 🙂