[Android] minSDK is now 8, aka Android 2.2

[Edward Wang]

A sad day... although it was a rather remarkable feat indeed that we
managed to support 2.1 for all these 5 years.

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <git at videolan.org> wrote:
> vlc-ports/android | branch: master | Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> | Mon Nov  9 01:28:55 2015 +0100| [345a96f64ac323d02c5fc158348c5b9f5dff421a] | committer: Jean-Baptiste Kempf
>
> minSDK is now 8, aka Android 2.2
>
> This is mostly because of the AudioManager changes, but also the fact
> that 2.1 is quite old and rare.
> The Play Store is also only 2.2+ since a long time.
>
> However, developers, please try to keep your work compatible with Android-7
> as much as possible. We don't know what the future will be.
>
>> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc-ports/android.git/?a=commit;h=345a96f64ac323d02c5fc158348c5b9f5dff421a
> ---
>
>  vlc-android/AndroidManifest.xml |    5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/vlc-android/AndroidManifest.xml b/vlc-android/AndroidManifest.xml
> index 0d45a30..5ca30ff 100644
> --- a/vlc-android/AndroidManifest.xml
> +++ b/vlc-android/AndroidManifest.xml
> @@ -25,9 +25,8 @@
>      -->
>
>      <uses-sdk
> -        android:minSdkVersion="7"
> -        android:targetSdkVersion="22"
> -        tools:overrideLibrary="android.support.percent"/>
> +        android:minSdkVersion="8"
> +        android:targetSdkVersion="22" />
>
>      <!-- FIXME Because manifest merger will add it otherwise... -->
>      <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" tools:node="remove" />
>
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