I am very new to JNI and I am trying to figure out how certain things work before I port my C++ iOS code to it. I was successful in getting one of the NDK samples working in And
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jni/spec/functions.html
GetStaticMethodID
jmethodID GetStaticMethodID(JNIEnv *env, jclass clazz, const char *name, const char *sig);
Returns the method ID for a static method of a class. The method is specified by its name and signature.