NDK Compatibility

FFmpegKit releases are built and tested with the latest Android NDK available at that time.

The following table shows each FFmpegKit release and which NDK release is used to build and test that release. See #292 if you are using r23 or later.

FFmpegKit	Android NDK	Host
6.0	r22b r23c r24 r25b	Mac M1
6.0.LTS	r22b r23c	Mac M1
5.1	r22b r23c r24 r25b	Linux 64-bit (x86) Mac
5.1.LTS	r22b r23c	Linux 64-bit (x86) Mac
4.5.1	r22b r23b	Linux 64-bit (x86) Mac
4.5.1.LTS	r22b r23b	Linux 64-bit (x86) Mac
4.5	r21e r22b r23	Linux 64-bit (x86) Mac
4.5.LTS	r21e r22b r23	Linux 64-bit (x86) Mac
4.4	r22	Linux 64-bit (x86) Mac
4.4.LTS	r22	Linux 64-bit (x86) Mac

Notes:

• Android NDK > 23 does not support API Levels 16, 17 and 18. Thus, LTS releases are tested with r22b and r23c.
• Building FFmpegKit Android library on Windows is not officially supported. The last time we tried, some external libraries were not compatible with Windows Subsystem for Linux. And, the effort needed to patch & maintain them was big. Furthermore, there wasn't a standard package manager on Windows. Even installing prerequisites we have for Android was a problem. Therefore, we decided against supporting it. If you use Windows as host you may receive build errors.