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Google dislikes people who develop for Android, and provides them with terrible tools for programming. All people I have known who have worked on Android NDK have gone mad except one, and that is just because he is a “special” person who likes debugging with sprintf() and #if 0 instead of using breakpoints and watchpoints.

It really isn’t a joke. One of my coworkers confessed yesterday that since he got tasked with Android programming it is the first time in 5 or 6 years at this company that he has considered quitting. The other one literally has some kind of addiction to debugging, and so he is happy with Android programming.
Because that is basically all you are doing when working with the NDK. Pure raw unabridged debugging, and nothing else. Not moving forward, just debugging.
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L. Spiro