NDK r24 support about rules_android HOT 5 CLOSED

Most of the discussion about this is here: bazelbuild/bazel#12889

we're using ndk 21 in the meantime and it works fine as long as you don't need any newer features / improvements from newer NDKs

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@keith with his usual set of blazingly fast, great cross-refs :)
@mchinen Would you be down to close this one and centralize around bazelbuild/bazel#12889, esp since the code for this is still in Bazel core?

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@keith thank you for the info!
@cpsauer sure, if you prefer that, feel free to close. I will make a weak case for leaving it open while following the bazel core issue: it will help with visibility since bazel core issues are so numerous that it is not easy to view/search and others might come to this repo for android build rule failures.

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Up to you guys! (I don't have magic closing power.)
[If someone reading this knows the Bazel philosophy around when issues should be centralized vs federated, I'd be curious to hear.]

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NDK support is being moved to github.com/bazelbuild/rules_android_ndk, and there's a development preview that should work for NDK 25. As mentioned above, the discussion is on bazelbuild/bazel#12889

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