How to compile latest FFmpeg Library for Android?

Question

Struggling to put together a working and generally best practice build of current FFmpeg. There seems to be no up-to-date documents or tutorials. What does exist is full of outd

Answer 1

Build the standalone NDK Toolchain

Download the latest NDK and run make_standalone_toolchain.py

Configure FFmpeg

./configure \
--cross-prefix=arm-linux-androideabi- \
--sysroot="${ANDROID_STANDALONE_NDK}/sysroot" \
--target-os=linux \
--arch=arm \
--cpu=cortex-a8 \
--enable-cross-compile \
--enable-pic \
--enable-shared \
--extra-cflags="-fpic"

Then of course

make -j4

You probably don't want to compile a lot of the components, so you'll need to see what to enable/disable in ./configure --help