Qt 5 and Android
The goal in mind was to allow use of Qt on Android primarily in order to work at the system level (not using the regular Android display stack, but using Wayland on Android) - tying in with Collabora's other work on Android, but this work also doesn't preclude someone from e.g. implementing a platform plugin to allow Android applications to run natively on unhacked devices, similar to Necessitas on Qt 4 - and I'd very much like to see that happen upstream.
In terms of compilation, there is one approach currently upstreamed that involves using the NDK, see this wiki page for more information. You'll note it's quite easy to do a build yourself, something that was quite intentional, since I figure that the only way it's going to improve easily is if it is easy to hack on it. I'm sure the build & installation instructions can be more optimal still (like installing to /system/lib, etc) but it's a start. Contributions welcome. I should also take a moment to thank the Necessitas guys, their mkspecs provided a nice starting point.
I had started an alternative route of integrating Qt with Android image builds (so, check out the Android tree, repo sync, drop Qt in place, run 'make' and have it built & deployed for you), but unfortunately, my sponsored time to work on this ran out, and so I wasn't able to finish it. It's still an interesting area of work, and so, I do plan to try continue it in my spare time.
In terms of actually using it, one area which is a bit of pain still, is that there's a bug in the way bionic's linker handles R_ARM_COPY relocations - instead of looking up the symbol to copy in the shared libraries the binary depends on, it finds the binary's symbol instead, meaning it doesn't really do any actual relocation.
The symptom of this is that your binary will crash on start due to things being zero'd out that really shouldn't be (like QObject::staticMetaObject in my case), depending on how it's been built. Thanks to Thiago for helping me nut that very difficult problem out. There is a patch pending on Android's gerrit instance, but I need to find the time to go rebase the patch and retest it to make sure it still works, although the code changes in the area look quite trivial.
For those of you who are visually oriented: I'm sorry, but there's not much to show here, because - as of yet - I don't have anything graphical running. Though in theory, it might be already possible to easily shoehorn Wayland libraries into the NDK using Pekka's work, and build QtWayland that way. But if anyone wants to talk Qt on Android, or better still, contribute, I'm all ears.
Massive kudos to Collabora for sponsoring my work on this!