Unable to update AGP on Android due to Sentry dependency

[john-mejia]

We use the gradle plugin androidNativeBundle as described in https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/android/configuration/using-ndk/.

Currently, this plug in does not support AGP 8.1. I'm curious how closely Sentry works with the maintainers of this gradle plugin, or if there are other alternatives at this time?

[romtsn]

hi @john-mejia, thanks for raising this, we should actually amend that doc. We now support prefab, so you can just use that and it should get it working, follow this sample for how to set it up: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/tree/main/sentry-samples/sentry-samples-android. The important bits are:

android {
	buildFeatures {
	    prefab = true
	}

	externalNativeBuild { cmake { path("CMakeLists.txt") } }
}
...
dependencies {
    implementation("io.sentry:sentry-native-ndk:0.9.1")
}

and then in your CMakeLists.txt:

...
find_package(sentry-native-ndk REQUIRED CONFIG)
...
target_link_libraries(native-sample PRIVATE
    sentry-native-ndk::sentry-android
    sentry-native-ndk::sentry
)

[john-mejia]

Thanks @romtsn - I'll give this a try. Does this require a specific Sentry version?

[romtsn]

Yeah it has to be 8+ (ideally the native-ndk version should align with what Android SDK version you're using I guess: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#dependencies-4)

[john-mejia]

Thanks, I got it sorted out like so:

implementation("io.sentry:sentry-android:${rootProject.ext.sentryAndroidVersion}") {
			exclude group: 'io.sentry', module: 'sentry-android-ndk'
}
implementation "io.sentry:sentry-native-ndk:${rootProject.ext.sentryNativeNdkVersion}"

Since we're using Java classes, it seems we need both to be able to use the prefab-compatible version. This isn't my area of expertise though so I'm curious if you have any comments.

Are there docs that are written for a similar project structure by any chance?