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F-Droid Forum [Unofficial] February 14, 2026
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Agreed. The input is absolutely appreciated, but editors are not the big problem. But, some good news: right now my little build solution has built the following (with patches as necessary to avoid EULA/licensing issues): For the NDK: * 29 - the current stable version * 27d - the current LTS release * 25c - the last release to support KitKat (this one is important to me personally) For each, I got packages for both gnu/linux and windows (I skipped Mac for now). Each one being both a compressed zip-file, and some other format (tar.xz for the older one, and tar.br for the two recent ones, it seems upstream is trying out ways of reducing the archive size?). For the SDK: * 15 r9 Again, here it applies a small patch to prevent the EULA from being included in the packages. Turns out there has been many new revisions since r9 (right now it’s at 30-something?). And there is a new SDK 16 to look at. Unlike the NDK, the SDK does does not seem to have an LTS version? So I need to do some more building here. There are some small things to clean up (like renaming the files to conform with the official zips - I am already doing this for the NDK releases), but that’s not a big problem. Right now my main concern is deciding on where to upload all of these! To @hans and @vdbhb59 : how should I proceed with uploading these? I’m going to put the sources of my build solution on codeberg, but I think it will be too much to also upload the actual results there (at least if I make more versions, it will be too big). Is this something any of you or f-droid could host? Obviously you might want to build these yourself, but the build system should make that easy when it’s done (just needs a debian install with some standard packages and the “repo” script).

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