diff --git a/zorg/buildbot/builders/sanitizers/buildbot_android.sh b/zorg/buildbot/builders/sanitizers/buildbot_android.sh
--- a/zorg/buildbot/builders/sanitizers/buildbot_android.sh
+++ b/zorg/buildbot/builders/sanitizers/buildbot_android.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 clobber
 
-download_android_tools r16
+download_android_tools
 
 # Stage 1
 
@@ -41,9 +41,7 @@
 # Android NDK has no iconv.h which is requred by LIBXML2.
 CMAKE_COMMON_OPTIONS="${CMAKE_COMMON_OPTIONS} -DLLVM_LIBXML2_ENABLED=OFF"
 
-build_android_ndk aarch64 arm64
-build_android_ndk arm arm
-build_android_ndk i686 x86
+setup_android_ndk
 
 echo @@@BUILD_STEP run cmake@@@
 configure_android aarch64 aarch64-linux-android
diff --git a/zorg/buildbot/builders/sanitizers/buildbot_android_functions.sh b/zorg/buildbot/builders/sanitizers/buildbot_android_functions.sh
--- a/zorg/buildbot/builders/sanitizers/buildbot_android_functions.sh
+++ b/zorg/buildbot/builders/sanitizers/buildbot_android_functions.sh
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@
 CLOBBER="android_ndk android-ndk-* platform-tools *.zip shards_* test_android_* tested_arch_*"
 STAGE2_CLOBBER="compiler_rt_build_android_* llvm_build_android_*"
 STAGE1_CLOBBER="llvm_build64 ${STAGE2_CLOBBER}"
+ANDROID_NDK_VERSION=21
 
 function download_android_tools {
-  local VERSION=android-ndk-$1
+  # `r21d` is the latest version.
+  local VERSION=android-ndk-r${ANDROID_NDK_VERSION}d
   local FILE_NAME=${VERSION}-linux-x86_64.zip
   local NDK_URL=https://dl.google.com/android/repository/${FILE_NAME}
   local NDK_DIR=android_ndk
@@ -50,26 +52,36 @@
   ninja -C llvm_build64 || echo @@@STEP_FAILURE@@@
 }
 
-function build_android_ndk {
-  local NDK_DIR=android_ndk
-  local _arch=$1
-  local _ndk_arch=$2
-  if [[ ! -d $NDK_DIR/standalone-$_arch ]] ; then 
-    echo @@@BUILD_STEP building Android NDK for $_arch@@@
-    $NDK_DIR/build/tools/make_standalone_toolchain.py --api 24 --force --arch $_ndk_arch --stl=libc++ --install-dir $NDK_DIR/standalone-$_arch
+function setup_android_ndk {
+  local _default_api_level=24;
+  NDK_DIR=android_ndk
+  ANDROID_TOOLCHAIN=$ROOT/$NDK_DIR/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/linux-x86_64
+  if [ -z ${ANDROID_API+x} ]; then
+    # If ANDROID_API was not specified, then use the default.
+    ANDROID_API=$_default_api_level
+  else
+    local _min=$(grep "min" $ROOT/$ND_DIR/meta/platforms.json | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/.$//')
+    local _max=$(grep "max" $ROOT/$ND_DIR/meta/platforms.json | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/.$//')
+    # Adjust the specified API level to be within range supported by the ndk.
+    if [[ $ANDROID_API -gt max  || $ANDROID_API -lt min ]]; then
+      echo "API level $ANDROID_API is not supported."
+      ANDROID_API=$_default_api_level
+    fi
   fi
+  echo "Building for Android API level $ANDROID_API"
 }
 
 function configure_android { # ARCH triple
   local _arch=$1
   local _triple=$2
 
-  local ANDROID_TOOLCHAIN=$ROOT/android_ndk/standalone-$_arch
   local ANDROID_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIR=$(ls -d $ROOT/llvm_build64/lib/clang/* | tail -1)
   local ANDROID_EXEC_OUTPUT_DIR=$ROOT/llvm_build64/bin
-  local ANDROID_FLAGS="--target=$_triple --sysroot=$ANDROID_TOOLCHAIN/sysroot -B$ANDROID_TOOLCHAIN"
-  local ANDROID_CXX_FLAGS="$ANDROID_FLAGS -stdlib=libstdc++"
+  local ANDROID_FLAGS="--target=${_triple}${ANDROID_API} --sysroot=$ANDROID_TOOLCHAIN/sysroot -gcc-toolchain $ANDROID_TOOLCHAIN  -B$ANDROID_TOOLCHAIN"
+  local ANDROID_CXX_FLAGS="$ANDROID_FLAGS -stdlib=libc++ -I/$ANDROID_TOOLCHAIN/sysroot/usr/include/c++/v1"
 
+  local CLANG_PATH=$ROOT/llvm_build64/bin/clang
+  local CLANGXX_PATH=$ROOT/llvm_build64/bin/clang++
   # Always clobber android build tree.
   # It has a hidden dependency on clang (through CXX) which is not known to
   # the build system.
@@ -80,11 +92,12 @@
 
   (cd llvm_build_android_$_arch && cmake \
     -DLLVM_ENABLE_WERROR=OFF \
-    -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=$ROOT/llvm_build64/bin/clang \
-    -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=$ROOT/llvm_build64/bin/clang++ \
+    -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=$CLANG_PATH \
+    -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=$CLANGXX_PATH \
     -DCMAKE_ASM_FLAGS="$ANDROID_FLAGS" \
     -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="$ANDROID_FLAGS" \
     -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="$ANDROID_CXX_FLAGS" \
+    -DANDROID_NDK_VERSION=$ANDROID_NDK_VERSION \
     -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-pie" \
     -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON \
     -DLLVM_BUILD_RUNTIME=OFF \
@@ -95,8 +108,8 @@
   local COMPILER_RT_OPTIONS="$(readlink -f $LLVM/../compiler-rt)"
   
   (cd compiler_rt_build_android_$_arch && cmake \
-    -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=$ROOT/llvm_build64/bin/clang \
-    -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=$ROOT/llvm_build64/bin/clang++ \
+    -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=$CLANG_PATH \
+    -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=$CLANGXX_PATH \
     -DLLVM_CONFIG_PATH=$ROOT/llvm_build64/bin/llvm-config \
     -DCOMPILER_RT_BUILD_BUILTINS=OFF \
     -DCOMPILER_RT_INCLUDE_TESTS=ON \
@@ -105,6 +118,7 @@
     -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="$ANDROID_FLAGS" \
     -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="$ANDROID_CXX_FLAGS" \
     -DANDROID=1 \
+    -DANDROID_NDK_VERSION=$ANDROID_NDK_VERSION \
     -DCOMPILER_RT_TEST_COMPILER_CFLAGS="$ANDROID_FLAGS" \
     -DCOMPILER_RT_TEST_TARGET_TRIPLE=$_triple \
     -DCOMPILER_RT_OUTPUT_DIR="$ANDROID_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIR" \
@@ -232,8 +246,7 @@
 
   export DEVICE_DESCRIPTION=$_arch/$_build_flavor/$_build_id
 
-  ANDROID_TOOLCHAIN=$ROOT/android_ndk/standalone-$_arch
-  LIBCXX_SHARED=$(find $ANDROID_TOOLCHAIN/ -name libc++_shared.so | head -1)
+  LIBCXX_SHARED=$ANDROID_TOOLCHAIN/sysroot/usr/lib/${_arch}-linux-android/libc++_shared.so
   SYMBOLIZER_BIN=$ROOT/llvm_build_android_$_arch/bin/llvm-symbolizer
   RT_DIR=$($ROOT/llvm_build64/bin/clang -print-resource-dir)/lib/linux
   COMPILER_RT_BUILD_DIR=$ROOT/compiler_rt_build_android_$_arch