[Android] Support dynamic page size for Android 15+ devices

[markushi]

Description

Related sentry-native issue: getsentry/sentry-native#989

Android 15 devices with page size 16kb enabled, will face a startup crash when using our Sentry SDK.

As outlined here, getsentry/sentry-native#1028 NDK 27 is required in order to produce 16kb friendly libraries, which in turn requires min SDK level 21 (we're currently on 19)

After some discussion we decided to release this change, including the breaking min. SDK bump, as a minor SDK 7.x.x version - The downside of every app crashing doesn't outweigh sticking to semver, especially when 99% of devices are on 21+ already.

[kahest]

related:

• https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/08/adding-16-kb-page-size-to-android.html
• https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/page-sizes
  • wrt. NDK <=26: https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/page-sizes#compile-r26-lower

[maxoertel]

Hi @markushi,

Does your team already have an estimated date when this will be released? We are preparing our app currently for Android 15 and Sentry not supporting 16kb page sizes yet is currently a blocker for us.

Thx in advance for a reply!

[kahest]

@maxoertel we don't have a specific ETA yet, but we're prioritising this.

[markushi]

Hey everyone, quick update: We just shipped a 7.17.0-alpha.1 release of our SDK which provides 16KB page size support. If you have testing capabilities, please give it a try and let us know if the underlying 16KB change works as expected.

[markushi]

@maxoertel any chance you could give this a try?

[maxoertel]

@markushi Will check it next week!

[markushi]

@maxoertel did you have any chance to give it a try?

[maxoertel]

@markushi it's planned for tomorrow.

[maxoertel]

@markushi I gave it a try and looks good, the alignment script now prints ALIGNED. We cannot yet test running on a 16kb emulator, since not yet all our dependencies are 16kb aligned. Once they are I'll let you know, but I would assume if the script prints ALIGNED it should be fine.

Thx for taking this on!