Greetings nixpkgs users,
As part of the multiple updates being made to the androidenv packages by @hadilq and others recently, we’re changing our policy to match that of the BEAM ecosystem: all packages will now track the latest versions by default unless you want a particular version of the SDK tools, which you can still select as usual.
The Android SDKs suffer from a lot of version churn, resulting in a lot of manual labor to update the versions stored in nixpkgs. We are supplementing the new policy with automation: we’re soon to have automatic updates and test suite runs so we never miss a version.
If you’re interested in reviewing the implementation, here’s the PR. We hope to have more updates for you in the future as we try to better modernize the Android part of nixpkgs.
Keep on nixing,
Morgan