Specify different apiLevel for different CPU architecture

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, kotlin
Domain
build-system, mobile

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Start by tracing how the apiLevel option is applied to builds for each CPU architecture and how the configured targets are passed to the Android build. Check the existing solution mentioned in the issue, then define per-architecture API-level behavior and verify that both arm64 and API 17 builds remain compatible.

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Description

There is probably an existing solution around it, the apiLevel option only allows specifying just one api level for the builds of all the cpu architectures.

If I specify apiLevel = 17 and add arm64 to my targets, build won't succeed 'cos NDK does not have anything for arm64 on apiLevel 17. On the other hand if I switch apiLevel = 21, the app crashes on devices running api 17 due to incompatible librust.so built with it.

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