native – Split assets by ABI on Android

I’ve seen this guide on how to build split APKs for each ABI.

However my app embeds a bunch of native executables as assets. Is it possible to filter them based on the ABI?

Relevant parts of build.gradle:

android {
    ...
    splits {
        abi {
            enable true
        }
    }
    externalNativeBuild {
        cmake {
            path "CMakeLists.txt"
            // builds assets and places them in src/main/assets
        }
    }
    sourceSets {
        main {
            assets.srcDirs = ['src/main/assets']
        }
    }
}

Sample app tree after building native executables with CMake:

src
  + main
      + assets
          + x86
          |   + native-x86.bin
          + x86_64
          |   + native-x86_64.bin
          + armeabi-v7a
          |   + native-arm.bin
          + arm64-v8a
              + native-aarch64.bin

Each ABI directory contains native binaries

I would like each split APK to contain only the ABI-specific assets directory, with the other ones filtered. For example, for the arm64 APK:

assets
   + arm64-v8a
       + native-aarch64.bin

  productFlavors {

   x86 {
    jniLibs.srcDir = /path/to/native-x86.bin
    //or maybe 
    assets.srcDirs = /path/to/native-x86.bin
     ndk {
      abiFilter "x86"
    }
   }
   armv7 {
    jniLibs.srcDir = /path/to/native-arm.bin
    ndk {
    abiFilter "armeabi-v7a"
  }
  }

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