Minimum supported API level recently raised from 21 (Qt 5.15) to 23 (Qt 6.0) then to 26 (Qt 6.5?) without details behind it, so possibility of deploying to devices with lower API level is unclean. I guess raising level 23 API may be caused by implementation of runtime permissons, but whats behind raising it to 26?
"While changes in CI are not being made at this stage, we need to move forward with setting user's expectations that they can no longer rely on Qt remains compatible with Android versions that are no longer maintained by Google." https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtdoc/+/466788 What means no longer maintained by Google? Google supports development for wide range of Android API levels, their recent LTS NDK r25 still supports level 19+ API, they provide various 'Compat' classes for support lower APIs levels. To favor focus of Qt on more recent Android versions, while still keeping possibility of building Qt applications for devices with lower API levels, i think there should be multiple documented minimal API levels: -general minimal supported API level (e.g. 26) of Qt framework (favored in test configurations, bug priority, etc.) -individual minimal API level requirements of Qt modules (e.g. for qtcore level 23 or maybe even lower in some cases)
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