Relationship to the NDK

Platform code uses Bionic directly, but third-party developers use the Android Native Development Kit (NDK). Many third-party developers still target older OS releases, which contributes to a widespread belief that Bionic lacks many features. Gingerbread exported 803 functions from libc but Oreo exports 1278 (a 1.6x increase).

Historically the NDK and the platform diverged, but NDK r11 and later have replaced NDK forks with their current platform equivalents.

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