The Android NDK Maven Plugin is used to build native libraries and components with the help of the Android NDK and Apache Maven.
These components can then be used to create Android applications (APK) or archives (AAR) with the Android Maven Plugin.
The plugin includes numerous features with some minimal setup for usage.
Android SDK r21.1 or later, latest is best supported
Android NDK r9d, latest is best supported
There are "quirks" with older NDKs, if you find one, let us know
Java Development Kit 1.6 - 1.8 as supported by the Android SDK
Apache Maven 3.0.5+
Environment variables and PATH settings:
Set ANDROID_HOME to point to the path of your installed Android SDK
Set ANDROID_NDK_HOME to point to the path of your installed Android NDK
$ANDROID_HOME/tools as well as $ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools to your $PATH
Or on Windows %ANDROID_HOME%\tools and %ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools
The best examples for project setups are the example projects that are part of the plugin code base and are run with each build and release.
Plugin goal documentation on this site
Via the help goal of the plugin itself
Specific guides and articles on this site
Join and contribute on the Maven Android Developers mailing list