gradle: set the minSdk once globally

We keep the value in rootProject.ext as it's currenly used by libvlcjni.

application/app/build.gradle

@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ android {
 
     defaultConfig {
         applicationId rootProject.ext.appId
-        minSdk rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
         versionCode rootProject.ext.versionCode
         versionName rootProject.ext.versionName
         vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true
@@ -70,9 +69,6 @@ android {
         beforeVariants(selector().withBuildType("vlcBundle")) { variantBuilder ->
             variantBuilder.minSdk = 30
         }
-        beforeVariants(selector().withBuildType("vlcBundleAmazon")) { variantBuilder ->
-            variantBuilder.minSdk = rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
-        }
     }
 
     buildTypes {
@@ -80,7 +76,6 @@ android {
             minifyEnabled false
             proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
             kotlinOptions.freeCompilerArgs = ['-Xno-param-assertions']
-            defaultConfig.minSdk rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
         }
         signedRelease {
             initWith release

application/donations/build.gradle

@@ -40,8 +40,6 @@ android {
 
 
     defaultConfig {
-        minSdk rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
-
         testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
         consumerProguardFiles 'consumer-rules.pro'
         multiDexEnabled = true

application/live-plot-graph/build.gradle

@@ -30,8 +30,6 @@ plugins {
 android {
 
     defaultConfig {
-        minSdk rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
-
         testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
         consumerProguardFiles 'consumer-rules.pro'
     }

application/mediadb/build.gradle

@@ -37,8 +37,6 @@ android {
 
 
     defaultConfig {
-        minSdk rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
-
         testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
         consumerProguardFiles 'consumer-rules.pro'
     }

application/moviepedia/build.gradle

@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ android {
 
 
     defaultConfig {
-        minSdk rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
-
         testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
         consumerProguardFiles 'consumer-rules.pro'
 

application/remote-access-client/build.gradle

@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ android {
     namespace = 'org.videolan.vlc.remoteaccessclient'
 
     defaultConfig {
-        minSdk rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
-
         testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
         consumerProguardFiles "consumer-rules.pro"
         resValue "string", "build_remote_access_revision", remoteAccessRevision()

application/remote-access-server/build.gradle

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ android {
 
     defaultConfig {
         multiDexEnabled = true
-        minSdk rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
 
         testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
         consumerProguardFiles "consumer-rules.pro"

application/resources/build.gradle

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ android {
 
 
     defaultConfig {
-        minSdk rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
         testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
         buildConfigField "String", "APP_ID", "\"${rootProject.ext.appId}\""
         buildConfigField 'String', 'VLC_OPEN_SUBTITLES_API_KEY', "\"${getOSApiKey(project)}\""

application/television/build.gradle

@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ android {
     dataBinding.enabled = true
 
     defaultConfig {
-        minSdk rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
-
         testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
         consumerProguardFiles 'consumer-rules.pro'
     }

application/tools/build.gradle

@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ plugins {
 android {
 
     defaultConfig {
-        minSdk rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
-
         testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
 
     }

application/vlc-android/build.gradle

@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ android {
         // that the app's state is completely cleared between tests.
         testInstrumentationRunnerArguments clearPackageData: 'true'
 
-        minSdk rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
         vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true
     }
 

medialibrary/build.gradle

@@ -34,10 +34,6 @@ android {
         targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
     }
 
-    defaultConfig {
-        minSdk rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
-    }
-
     sourceSets {
         main {
             jniLibs.srcDir 'jni/libs' // Where generated .so files are placed.

settings.gradle

@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ plugins {
     id("com.android.settings") version "8.11.0"
 }
 
+def vlcMajorVersion = hasProperty('forceVlc4') && getProperty('forceVlc4') ? 4 : 3
+
 android {
+    minSdk = vlcMajorVersion == 3 ? 17 : 21
     targetSdk = 34
     compileSdk = 34 // Dockers: 3.0=36 / 4.0=36
     buildToolsVersion = '35.0.0'