[Macos] Android NDK 24 will be removed on September 16,2024

[susmitamane]

Breaking changes

There are two changes:

Ndk 24 will be removed.

Target date

September 16, 2024

The motivation for the changes

As of the software support policy only 3 latest versions of NDK are supported i.e., NDK 25, 26, 27.

Possible impact

• If your project depends on NDK r24 it can be broken.

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• Ubuntu 24.04
• macOS 12
• macOS 13
• macOS 13 Arm64
• macOS 14
• macOS 14 Arm64
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Mitigation ways

To install NDK r24 in runtime use the following snippets:

ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk
SDKMANAGER=$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest/bin/sdkmanager
echo y | "$SDKMANAGER" "ndk;$NDK_VERSION"

[sarathrajsrinivasan]

Closing as we are not going forward with this change for now. Will re-open with the updated date.