How to install android ndk in linux?

Posted on Aug 11, 2022

Question

I have downloaded android NDK from here: http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html
for Linux 64-bit (x86) android-ndk-r10c-linux-x86_64.bin. How I do install it? The instructions don't work. My OS is

57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:51:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Answer

The Standard Way

Android's NDK now ships as an self extracting executable. You likely need to set the executable bit:

$ chmod +x android-ndk-r10c-linux-x86_64.bin
$ ./android-ndk-r10c-linux-x86_64.bin

The above will cause the NDK to extract into the current working directory.

Manual Extraction

Since the .bin file is really just a 7-Zip self extracting archive, you can manually extract the contents if needed:

$ 7za x -o/path/to/extract/to/ android-ndk-r10c-linux-x86_64.bin


7-Zip is available in Ubuntu for example via apt-get:

$ sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

Update
As of at least r14b on the NDK download page, we're back to standard ZIP archives.