# Next-Gen Android Convenience Image Now GA/Stable

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/next-gen-android-convenience-image-now-ga-stable/41596>\
**Category:** CircleCI Images\
**Tags:** android, convenience-images, cimg\
**Created:** [October 21, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/next-gen-android-convenience-image-now-ga-stable/41596 "2021-10-21T01:57:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/next-gen-android-convenience-image-now-ga-stable/41596/1 "2021-10-21T01:57:18Z")

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The next-gen Android Convenience Image has now reached GA and is considered stable. This is the Docker based Android image, not to be confused with the [Android VM image](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/new-android-machine-image-now-available-to-all-users/39467). Unless you need emulator support or need to do low-level things on the OS, this is the version you want.

The following initial tags are available:

- 2021.10.1 (2021.10)
- 2021.9.1 (2021.09)
- 2021.08.1 (2021.08)

There are `-node`, `-browsers`, and `-ndk` variants available. Please visit the GitHub repository (link below) to learn how to use tags for this image.

Moving forward, we will release new tags approximately once a month. These updates will bring in new API levels, build-tools, NDKs, etc as they are available that month. You can visit the Developer Hub (link below) to see which versions of these tools are installed in a specific tag.

Links:

- [CircleCI Developer Hub](https://circleci.com/developer/images/image/cimg/android)
- [GitHub repository](https://github.com/CircleCI-Public/cimg-android)