No toolchains found in the NDK toolchains folder for ABI with prefix: arm-linux-androideabi

The main reason is that NDK 23 has different toolchain than the previous versions of NDK (22-), so the old version of AGP (Android Gradle Plugin) has not idea where to find the executables for different ABIs.

For me, simply update the AGP version in the build.gradle in your Android project root to 4.0+, such as

    dependencies {
        classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.1"
        ...

This will resolve the problem.

Note: You will need to set the environment variable ANDROID_NDK_HOME to your NDK 22- location, even Google's document does not require that or says it is deprecated.

If you want to stick to the current version of AGP, there is another work around, simply add this

android {
    android.ndkVersion "21.4.7075529" // (or whichever NDK 22- version you have installed)
    ...

to your module's build.gradle (not the build.gradle of your project)

Some other ways to work around this can be found here, Configure the NDK for the Android Gradle plugin

Well I solved the issue in 2 different ways:

A. I downgraded my NDK from version 23.0.7123448 to 22.0.7026061 by simple steps below:

1.Open SDK Manager from tool bar of android studio or from settings menu (File --> Settings --> Appearance and Behavior --> System Settings --> Android SDK).

2. Select the SDK Tools tab and from the Bottom Right of the window check the Show package details. Then simply uncheck any version you want to delete and select Apply.

(For me removing version 23.0.7123448 and get to 22.0.7026061 solved the problem. But if you are still having the Error above try to lower the NDK version. The most stable NDK version is 20.1.5948944)

3. If you have done all the steps before, you will see the following window popping up. Hit OK and you are all set.

B. This approach might look simple but yet it does the trick. Simply create a new Flutter project and get all you work (lib folder, assets, etc) to the new project.

Environment

Command

Error

*What went wrong:

Execution failed for task ':app:stripDebugDebugSymbols'.

No toolchains found in the NDK toolchains folder for ABI with prefix: arm-linux-androideabi

Fix

Then in the popup aside navigation go to:
Appearance & Behavior >> System Settings >> Android SDK


Click “SDK Tools”

Check the box next to show package details


Solution: Downgrade

References

Idea for downgrade: Taba's solution

Here's what worked for me I updated AGP to 4.1+ in my Android Project root build.gradle

dependencies {
    classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0"
    ...

AGP 4.1+ supports only gradle version gradle-6.5 above so I updated the distributionUrl in gradle-wrapper.properties file located in gradle/wrapper folder

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.5-all.zip

Get more info here

what worked for me was

• I change my Gradle dependencies from 3.5.1 to 4.0.1

dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.1'
    } 

which is under build.gradle

• The minimum Gradle support for Gradle dependencies(gradle:4.0.1) is gradle-6.1.1

if your gradle version for the project is below that you will have to change it by downloading a higher version or if you have it and you're using a wrapper, you will have to change the distribution to the one higher or same as the 6.1.1 version. which is under >gradle >wrapple >gradle-wrapple.properties

distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.7-all.zip

• You might most likely need to add to your NDK for Gradle-6.7 the supported NDK is NDK(side by side) version 21.0.6113669 which is under >tools >sdk manager(android SDK) >sdk tools >ndk side by side click show package details click and download the appropriate one for you

I clean all SDK folders in c:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\ndk\

Recent AppCenter android dependencies changes caused my android builds to fail with this error:

No toolchains found in the NDK toolchains folder for ABI with prefix: arm-linux-androideabi

Our solution was to upgrade the gradle version from 3.5.4 to 4.0.1 in the root build.gradle file:

dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.1'

Additional answer for @gwang and @TillyJonesy:

When running Gradle command with --info(AGP 3.5.4 for me), you will see that when no NDK version was given, AGP will try to use the highest NDK version.

And from the docs of Android NDK guidance, AGP <= 3.5 has no default NDK version.

See: https://developer.android.com/studio/projects/install-ndk#default-ndk-per-agp