Short writeup of howto use one of the Android NDK samples comfortably from within Eclipse:

• Create a new empty Android project.
• Copy a sample into the projects directory, overwriting some files.
• Right click project root and select properties than choose builders:
  • Create a new builder of type program
  • First box ndk-build script location
  • Second box is project location
  • Third box is these args:

     -C ${build_project} 

• Still within the Builder dialog, go to the refresh tab
• Check "Refresh resources upon completion"
• Select "Specific resources"
• Click on the "Specify resources" button and select your project's lib directory.
• Check "Recursively include sub-folders"
• Now in the build options tab
• Check "Allocate Console"
• Check "Launch in background"
• Check "Run the builder After a Clean"
• Check "Run the builder During manual builds"
• Check "Run the builder During auto builds"
• Check "Specify working set of relevant resources"
• Click on "Specify Resources"
• Select your project's JNI directory and all files within.
• Now click OK on the bottom.