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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 [email protected] 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

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

2024 LTS

The 2024 LTS will either be r27 or r28, but we haven't yet decided which. We will aim for a Q3 LTS release as usual, but depending on when r27 stabilizes we may end up with a late Q2 r27 LTS instead to avoid having the LTS too late in the year.

The 2023 LTS (r26) was first released in September 2023, so it will remain supported until either September 2024 or the release of the 2024 LTS, whichever is later.

Supported Downloads

Current LTS Release

r26c Changelog

android {
    ndkVersion "26.2.11394342"
}
Platform Package Size (Bytes) SHA1 Checksum
Windows android-ndk-r26c-windows.zip 660158794 f8c8aa6135241954461b2e3629cada4722e13ee7
macOS android-ndk-r26c-darwin.dmg 1655206097 9d86710c309c500aa0a918fa9902d9d72cca0889
Linux android-ndk-r26c-linux.zip 668556021 7faebe2ebd3590518f326c82992603170f07c96e