[malkia]

@ Google - most of the projects are linked statically, and all source code is present (possibly very, very few exceptions) at compile time (all open-source packages are recompiled too)...

As such, backward compatibility (binary-wise) is not needed.

Android, Chrome, etc. are another matter - former has an SDK, and I guess you may need that there, but I don't have much experience with it.

[humanrebar]

True, but if it's my understanding that Google doesn't pursue semantic versioning, at least with C++, partly because it's hard for a human being to understand what C++ changes affect an ABI and which ones don't.

[pjmlp]

I just noticed an old Github issue has been updated a while ago, and we might start seeing some actual NDK C++ APIs with r17 and later releases.