Documentation improvements: Explicit versions for Ubuntu, JDK, Android

[hackalog]

There are a few incompatibilities with recent versions of the Android SDK, the JDK, Ubuntu, and p4a. The documentation may be improved by including specific versions that work, (and versions that don't).

After a few days of fiddling, we came up with the following configurations that seem to work:

• Ubuntu 16.04, openjdk-8, Android SDK build tools 23 (Marshmallow), min_api={19,14}, Android NDK r12b
• Ubuntu 14.04, openjdk-7, Android SDK build tools 23 (Marshmallow), min_api={19,14}, Android NDK r12b

The following combinations do not work:

• Android SDK 24 + openjdk-7

The following is difficult to configure, as Java 7 support is not shipped with the latest Ubuntu

• Ubuntu 16.04 + openjdk-7

API Notes

• If you are targeting Android SDK 21 and later you will need to add --arch=armeabi-v7a to your p4a flags.
• min_api=23 does not currently work, as p4a generates a deprecated API call. Change to something earlier (19 and 14 work)

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[Tungsteno74]

For me work only android target (pygame) with Android SDK 24 + openjdk-8 in Xbuntu 16.04.
If i debug it in android_new, i receive a strange error. I'm investigating...

[Julian-O]

Listing configurations that work is going to be out-of-date continuously.

My suggestion:

• Fix the configurations that don't work! Whether that is properly specifying dependencies or checking for the presence or whatever.
• Documenting in the FAQ the attributes of configs that don't work (and why)