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+buildscript {
+    repositories {
+        google()
+        jcenter()
+    }
+
+    dependencies {
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.0'
+    }
+}
+
+repositories {
+    google()
+    jcenter()
+}
+
+apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
+
+dependencies {
+    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar', '*.aar'])
+}
+
+android {
+    /*******************************************************
+     * The following variables:
+     * - androidBuildToolsVersion,
+     * - androidCompileSdkVersion
+     * - qt5AndroidDir - holds the path to qt android files
+     *                   needed to build any Qt application
+     *                   on Android.
+     *
+     * are defined in gradle.properties file. This file is
+     * updated by QtCreator and androiddeployqt tools.
+     * Changing them manually might break the compilation!
+     *******************************************************/
+
+    compileSdkVersion androidCompileSdkVersion.toInteger()
+
+    buildToolsVersion '28.0.3'
+
+    sourceSets {
+        main {
+            manifest.srcFile 'AndroidManifest.xml'
+            java.srcDirs = [qt5AndroidDir + '/src', 'src', 'java']
+            aidl.srcDirs = [qt5AndroidDir + '/src', 'src', 'aidl']
+            res.srcDirs = [qt5AndroidDir + '/res', 'res']
+            resources.srcDirs = ['src']
+            renderscript.srcDirs = ['src']
+            assets.srcDirs = ['assets']
+            jniLibs.srcDirs = ['libs']
+       }
+    }
+
+      splits {
+
+        // Configures multiple APKs based on ABI.
+        abi {
+
+          // Enables building multiple APKs per ABI.
+          enable true
+
+          // By default all ABIs are included, so use reset() and include to specify that we only
+          // want APKs for x86 and x86_64.
+
+          // Resets the list of ABIs that Gradle should create APKs for to none.
+          reset()
+
+          // Specifies a list of ABIs that Gradle should create APKs for.
+          // Note that because of the way that therecipe/qt bundles libraries
+          // only the specific architecture specified by GOARCH /GOARM will *actually*
+          // work so we currently have to do separate builds for each arch - this needs to be fixed.
+          include "armeabi-v7a", "arm64-v8a"
+
+          // Specifies that we do not want to also generate a universal APK that includes all ABIs.
+          universalApk true
+        }
+      }
+
+
+    lintOptions {
+        abortOnError true
+    }
+}