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Betas, release candidates, canary releases, and stable releases

Stable releases along with any current betas and release candidates are available from this page.

Canary releases are available on ci.android.com for all supported operating systems.

Note: canaries, betas, and release candidates should not be used for production, but are a great way for you to find and report bugs early, before they make it to a stable release.

Announcements

Subscribe to the android-ndk-announce@googlegroups.com mailing list if you'd like to be notified whenever we publish a new NDK release (beta or stable).

macOS 10.15 "Catalina"

A macOS app bundle that is signed and notarized is available. Note that because only bundles may use RPATH and pass notarization, the traditional NDK package for macOS cannot be notarized. The SDK will continue to use the traditional package as the app bundle requires layout changes that would make it incompatible with Android Studio. The NDK is not quarantined when it is downloaded via the SDK manager, so is currently allowed by Gatekeeper. The SDK manager is currently the most reliable way to get the NDK for macOS.

Release Schedule

The NDK releases on a roughly quarterly basis. One release a year is designated as a Long Term Support (LTS) release that will receive backports until the next LTS is released. Each version is first released as a beta and then a release candidate before being shipped to stable. Multiple betas and release candidates are a possibility if the first beta does not meet our promotion criteria, but there will always be at least one of each. For details, see NDK Release Process.

NDK r27 (LTS)

NDK r27 is the LTS release that will ship in 2024. Due to bandwidth constraints there are no major releases planned between r26 and the 2024 LTS. r26 is the 2023 LTS so it will be supported at least until r27 ships.

Release Expected Release Date
Beta 1 March 2024
RC 1 TBD
Release TBD

Supported Downloads

Current LTS Release

r26b Changelog

android {
    ndkVersion "26.1.10909125"
}
Platform Package Size (Bytes) SHA1 Checksum
Windows android-ndk-r26b-windows.zip 661624075 17453c61a59e848cffb8634f2c7b322417f1732e
macOS android-ndk-r26b-darwin.dmg 1657011580 c30bdbc77c5bae2faf912591611640ac4d3c2331
Linux android-ndk-r26b-linux.zip 669320864 fdf33d9f6c1b3f16e5459d53a82c7d2201edbcc4