Prerequisites

CMake GUI

For building, the tool cmake-gui is needed. Navigate to https://cmake.org/download/ and download the latest stable version for your PC, 64bit etition and install it.

Ninja build tool

For building android applications, yet another build tool is required.

• Navigate to https://ninja-build.org/ and download the ninja binary (yes, it’s only ninja.exe)
  
  
  
  
• Save it at C:\Programs\Ninja\ and add this path to your PATH environment variable.
  

Android Studio

• Download the latest stable version of Android-Studio from Google and install it.
• Next, a special version of the Android-NDK is required because the newer ones are broken:
  Navigate to: https://developer.android.com/ndk/downloads/older_releases and download the android-NDK-r17c as shown below.
  
  
  
  
   
  
• Extract the downloaded zip file, rename the unpacked folder to ndk-r17c and move it to:
  %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\
  This way, the NDK-r17c exists in parallel to the delivered one and will not be affected by updates.
  
  
• Set the environment variable ANDROID_NDK to the path where you saved ndk-r17c:
  here it is: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\ndk-r17c\
  This is mandatory for the toolchain file.
  
  
• Finally extend the PATH environment variable to the platform tools directory:
  Here, this is %USERPROFILE% \AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\
  This makes tools like adb available on CMD, which makes live a lot easier.