Include ICU in Android NDK Project

Question

I built a library in C++ that I want to include in my Android application using the NDK. However, my library needs to use ICU4C. I have been trying to compile ICU for Androi

Answer 1

You can build ICU as Android static library by specifying these flags in your Android.mk

LOCAL_CFLAGS := -DANDROID -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections
LOCAL_CPPFLAGS := -DANDROID -frtti -fno-exceptions -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections

If you use Android NDK without exceptions you will need to hack the missing cxa_bad_typeid()

extern "C" std::type_info const& __cxa_bad_typeid()
{
   // just return something
   return typeid(void*);
}