[Development] [Android] Raising minimum supported Android NDK version to r19

[Liang Qi]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 18:58, Alexey Rochev <equeim at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I'm currently investigating several problems with building Qt with
> recent (r19 and r20) NDK versions. In NDK r19 Google added a new
> toolchain, and we need to use it for some features to work (e.g.
> LTCG). It would greatly simplify build system configuration if we
> dropped support of previous NDK versions. Doing so will also require
> us to drop support of android-g++ platform (GCC was removed in NDK
> r18) and armv5 (removed in NDK r17). Also it will require clients to
> use r19+ too. What do you think?

See also https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTQAINFRA-2568 .

Best Regards,
Liang

>
> Alexey Rochev
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