actually i've just tested with android studio 1.4 and it still works fine, all i have to do is edit the paths.make file to point it to the ndk and install android studio then any of the examples work fine for me.
not sure what might be going on, in any case support for android studio is still experimental since it doesn't have proper support for c++ development yet so we haven't invest much time in it yet, if it doesn't work i would try eclipse + the adt plugin following the instructions in the android_eclipse readme