А если вы используете нативную активность и C ++:
void ANativeActivity_onCreate(ANativeActivity* app, void*, size_t) {
const jclass contextClass = app->env->GetObjectClass(app->clazz);
const jmethodID getApplicationContextMethod =
app->env->GetMethodID(contextClass, "getApplicationContext", "()Landroid/content/Context;");
const jobject contextObject =
app->env->CallObjectMethod(app->clazz, getApplicationContextMethod);
const jmethodID getApplicationInfoMethod = app->env->GetMethodID(
contextClass, "getApplicationInfo", "()Landroid/content/pm/ApplicationInfo;");
const jobject applicationInfoObject =
app->env->CallObjectMethod(contextObject, getApplicationInfoMethod);
const jfieldID nativeLibraryDirField = app->env->GetFieldID(
app->env->GetObjectClass(applicationInfoObject), "nativeLibraryDir", "Ljava/lang/String;");
const jobject nativeLibraryDirObject =
app->env->GetObjectField(applicationInfoObject, nativeLibraryDirField);
const jmethodID getBytesMethod = app->env->GetMethodID(
app->env->GetObjectClass(nativeLibraryDirObject), "getBytes", "(Ljava/lang/String;)[B");
const auto bytesObject = static_cast<jbyteArray>(app->env->CallObjectMethod(
nativeLibraryDirObject, getBytesMethod, app->env->NewStringUTF("UTF-8")));
const size_t length = app->env->GetArrayLength(bytesObject);
const jbyte* const bytes = app->env->GetByteArrayElements(bytesObject, nullptr);
const std::string libDir(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(bytes), length);