[Android-development] Dropping support for Android 15 and below in Qt 5.7, Was: Compiling latest Qt for Android, obsolete SDK versions required?

Harri Pasanen harri at mpaja.com
Fri Oct 23 21:46:03 CEST 2015


Fine by me.  I'd be comfortable even with Android 4.4 minimum.

My 2 cents

Harri

On 23.10.2015 12:48, Eskil A. Blomfeldt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've wanted to bring this up for a while: I propose to make Qt 5.7
> depend on Android 16 (Android 4.1) as a minimum. Qt 5.6 is a long term
> supported release, and all versions < 16 combined are already at less
> than 10% of active devices, so I think it makes sense.
>
> Any opinions?
>
>
>
> On 14. okt. 2015 07:38, Harri Pasanen wrote:
>> However, not all of those are any longer available for download via
>> Android manager, 11 seems to be missing.
>>
>> Personally I'd be happy to drop support for anything below API 19 for
>> future versions.
> A quick note to that: Those are required for building Qt itself, not Qt
> applications.
>
> Android 11 is available by ticking the "obsolete packages" checkbox in
> the installer. The reason it was made that way was that we attempted to
> make the default to build with the lowest possible SDK, as this would
> help us in preventing breaks on older devices. As time passed, we've
> added new features which for some reason or other required using a newer
> SDK, and at this point the whole system is too complex to be useful, but
> no one has had the time to rewrite it to just use the latest available
> SDK yet. It's possible to override the default with an environment
> variable, though (ANDROID_API_VERSION should work).
>
> -- Eskil
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