androidx / androidx/media

Media 3 Effect NDK not found in Gradle / Maven

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Media 3 Effect NDK not found in Gradle / Maven

We were trying the composition demo code When we came across this error

The Effect NDK was not found

This line gives the error
https://github.com/androidx/media/blob/2bc207851df311340767e913931ca7b28cab1794/demos/composition/src/main/java/androidx/media3/demo/composition/CompositionPreviewViewModel.kt#L65

It has been called in the demo app

https://github.com/androidx/media/blob/2bc207851df311340767e913931ca7b28cab1794/demos/composition/build.gradle.kts#L44

But dont see it in the Gradle list provided on this page

https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/media3
How can we add this

When we download the code, it seems to download from the main branch instead of the release branch, this might be causing the issue

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