These arguments are passed to the relevant x.py invocation in all cases
anyway. As such, there is no need to separately configure them. x.py
will ignore the configuration when they are passed on the command line
anyway.
* SDK tools is upgraded to 27.0.0.
- Refactored to use `sdkmanager`/`avdmanager` instead of the deprecated
`android` tool.
* The Java version used by Android SDK is downgraded to OpenJDK-8, in order
to download the SDK through HTTPS.
* NDK is upgrade to r15c.
- Dropped support for android-9 (2.3 / Gingerbread), the minimal
supported version is now android-14 (4.0 / Ice Cream Sandwich).
- Changed the default Android compiler from GCC to clang.
- For details of change introduced by NDK r15, see
https://github.com/android-ndk/ndk/wiki/Changelog-r15.
Guillaume Gomez
Mark Simulacrum
kennytm
Alex Crichton
Ty Coghlan
Marco A L Barbosa