With the current distribution, this is 90% of active devices, and
it was released in 2014. Qt 5.12 is LTS and will continue to support
older Android versions for a long time to come.
This is to reduce the testing needed on outdated platforms and
allow ourselves to use some newer APIs unconditionally in Qt.
Android 21 was chosen because it is the minimum version that supports
64 bit builds.
[ChangeLog][Android] Increased the minimum supported Android version
to Android 5.0 (API level 21).
Fixes: QTBUG-70508
Change-Id: Ia7b4345e42ca05a25a292f11ccbb8cbd692cf8f0
Reviewed-by: BogDan Vatra <bogdan@kdab.com>
To allow reusing the logic which detects the appropriate
Android SDK version to use for building the Java code,
this is now separated into its own .prf file. This is
required by Qt Purchasing to avoid duplicating the logic
there.
Change-Id: Ief5f5e70dab79751ef9e5a9c4a019bfda686cd09
Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@theqtcompany.com>
