[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Bump minimum required version of Android to 5.0

[Zhao Zhili]

> 在 2024年4月11日，下午9:57，Zhao Zhili <quinkblack at foxmail.com> 写道：
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>> On Apr 11, 2024, at 21:17, Tomas Härdin <git at haerdin.se> wrote:
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>> tor 2024-04-11 klockan 20:16 +0800 skrev Zhao Zhili:
>>> We don’t have a minimum required version of Android in FFmpeg.
>>> libavdevice/android_camera requires Android 7, Java MediaCodec
>>> requires Android 4.1, and NDK MediaCodec requires Android 5.0.
>>> 
>>> Without an explicit version, it’s unclear for development and test.
>>> 
>>> Android 5.0 is released in 2014, is it OK to bump the minimum
>>> required
>>> version to Android 5.0, or any other version you prefer?
>> 
>> Don't we already have stuff that detects the Android version and acts
>> accordingly? Dropping 4.1 might lessen the maintenance burden though.
> 
> Check Android API level is easy. There is minimum API level requirement
> in configure script as far as I know.

I mean there is no minimum API level requirement in configure.

>> 
>> I have an old phone (Samsung Galaxy S5) running the most recent
>> LineageOS possible to install on it (16.0), and that uses Android 9. So
>> for me bumping to version 5 sounds fine.
>> 
>> Do you have any statistics on Android versions actually in use?
> 
> Search by "Android distribution chart" shows version >= 5.0 is about 99.3%.
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>> 
>> /Tomas
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