Can NDK support rust library build

[PENGYING XU]

Rust has been used in AOSP build and created some new libraries.

I want to know if it can add rust build support in NDK to make application developed with Rust easy.

[Florian Mayer]

The NDK doesn't officially support Rust, but it's not impossible. See the NDK page about Memory error debugging and mitigation:

The officially supported memory safe languages for Android are Java and Kotlin. Most Android applications are easier to develop in one of those languages.
That said, there are app developers shipping code written in Rust, and if you're reading this page you probably do have a good reason to need native code (portability, performance, or both). Rust is the best choice for memory safe native code on Android. The NDK team is not necessarily able to help you with the problems you face if you go that route, but we are interested in hearing about them! 

On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 at 07:11, PENGYING XU <xpy66...@gmail.com> wrote:

Rust has been used in AOSP build and created some new libraries.

I want to know if it can add rust build support in NDK to make application developed with Rust easy.

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[Dan Albert]

Subscribe to https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/1742 using the button on the right (or the bottom if you're on mobile).

(additional feedback isn't needed, we already know people want it, but as you can see from that bug it's a rather large task)

There are a variety of unsupported workflows for doing it today. I won't link any specific examples because I've got no idea which ones are any good, but they should be easy to find with a web search.

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[James Farrell]

Here's an unofficial example of using Rust with the NDK: https://github.com/jfgoog/android-rs-examples

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