[Qt-creator] 4.5 beta removed Ant support?

[Jake Petroules]

I believe that's still the recommended one. Problems were observed with newer versions.

https://wiki.qt.io/Android#cite_note-known-issues-1

> On Oct 19, 2017, at 10:55 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there a place that lists up to date requirements, prerequisites and/or dependencies? Are there "reference configurations" for Android NDK and SDK versions? According to that page (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/androidgs.html), the recommended version of the NDK is 10e, which is several years old now.
> 
> 
> On 19/10/17 11:39, Jake Petroules wrote:
>> That's outdated. Google dropped support for Ant in favor of Gradle, and we've followed suit. You don't need to do or install anything, it should work out of the box.
>>> On Oct 19, 2017, at 10:37 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Can someone shed some light as to what this part in the 4.5 beta changelog means:
>>> 
>>>  Android
>>> 
>>>    * Removed support for Ant
>>> 
>>> However, Ant seems to be a prerequisite for Qt Android development? See:
>>> 
>>>  http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/androidgs.html
>>> 
>>>  In order to use Qt for Android, you need the following:
>>> 
>>>  Apache Ant v1.8 or later
>>> 
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