# Updating the Android NDK in Rust 1.68

**URL:** <https://forum.devtalk.com/t/updating-the-android-ndk-in-rust-1-68/90828>\
**Category:** Backend Official News\
**Tags:** newsbot, android, rust, official-news\
**Created:** [9 January 2023 16:06 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/updating-the-android-ndk-in-rust-1-68/90828 "2023-01-09T16:06:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [9 January 2023 16:06 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/updating-the-android-ndk-in-rust-1-68/90828/1 "2023-01-09T16:06:03Z")

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A new [Rust](https://devtalk.com/rust) blog post/announcement has been posted!

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> We are pleased to announce that Android platform support in Rust will be modernized in Rust 1.68 as we update the target NDK from r17 to r25. As a consequence the minimum supported API level will increase from 15 (Ice Cream Sandwich) to 19 (KitKat).
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> In NDK r23 Android switched to using LLVM's `libunwind` for all architectures. This meant that
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> 1. If a project were to target NDK r23 or newer with previous versions of Rust [a workaround](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/85806#issuecomment-1096266946) would be required to redirect attempts to link against `libgcc` to instead link against `libunwind`. Following this update this workaround will no longer be necessary.
> 2. If a project uses NDK r22 or older it will need to be updated to use [r23 or newer](https://developer.android.com/ndk/downloads). Information about the layout of the NDK's toolchain can be found [https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/01/09/android-ndk-update-r25.html](https://developer.android.com...
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