Use `prefab` for publishing Android NDK native libraries

[marandaneto]

Today, if people need to use the public API on sentry-native, they have to add a 3rd party plugin that copies the so files during build time.

https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/android/using-ndk/#allowing-the-compiler-to-link-libraries

if for some reason, people can't use this 3rd party plugin, they have to copy-paste the so files from the aar manually on every SDK update.

Google released the prefab that makes it possible on AGP 4.x but Sentry has to publish the NDK support using the correct format (prefab)

https://developer.android.com/studio/build/native-dependencies?agpversion=4.1

[marandaneto]

That is gonna force people using newer versions of AGP, that could be a problem for a portion of Android users, but the majority of the problem would come from Hybrid SDKs (RN and Flutter) since they are always behind.

[marandaneto]

https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/gradle-plugin#cpp-references

[SemMulder]

That is gonna force people using newer versions of AGP, that could be a problem for a portion of Android users, but the majority of the problem would come from Hybrid SDKs (RN and Flutter) since they are always behind.

Can't we just support both (the 3rd party plugin and the official prefab method) at the same time?

[marandaneto]

Be sure that using prefab doesn't require extra work on Hybrid SDKs, and if it does, loop us in.

[markushi]

Let's try to do this in a backward-compatible way.