diff --git a/NOTES b/NOTES
index e62281f..bdc2a74 100644
--- a/NOTES
+++ b/NOTES
@@ -675,6 +675,20 @@ it'll be worth anything or not but it should give me a sense of the build
 task without forcing me to decipher autoconf.
 
 
+May 25, 2019.
+
+To update to the new SDK (26 required now, 28 required starting in
+August), I have to switch to gradle and all that garbage.  Every time I
+update anything with the new SDKs, everything breaks, even after I've
+already updated everything to gradle.  So basically it is the worst
+possible development environment.
+
+Anyways, the NDK now doesn't support anything older than android-16 (JB
+4.1), which is stupid but whatever.  Looking on the play store, it looks
+like I have 5 users on these older devices.  I hope it simply refuses to
+update for them, and they can continue to use the older version!
+
+
 XXX - try /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/zsh as login shell
 XXX - reference lib dir by files dir /../lib, test it by logging in as "Guest"
 XXX - figure out what pie does to the boot event receiver
diff --git a/app/build.gradle b/app/build.gradle
index 15bb2ea..fb6c3a8 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle
+++ b/app/build.gradle
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ android {
 
     defaultConfig {
         applicationId "org.galexander.sshd"
-        minSdkVersion 7
+        minSdkVersion 16
         targetSdkVersion 28
     }
 
diff --git a/doit b/doit
index dde7af6..c491af7 100755
--- a/doit
+++ b/doit
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ~/Android/Sdk/ndk-bundle/ndk-build -j8 &&
-mv libs/armeabi/scp libs/armeabi/libscp.so &&
-mv libs/armeabi/sftp-server libs/armeabi/libsftp-server.so &&
-mv libs/armeabi/rsync libs/armeabi/librsync.so &&
-mv libs/armeabi/buffersu libs/armeabi/libbuffersu.so &&
+mv libs/armeabi-v7a/scp libs/armeabi-v7a/libscp.so &&
+mv libs/armeabi-v7a/sftp-server libs/armeabi-v7a/libsftp-server.so &&
+mv libs/armeabi-v7a/rsync libs/armeabi-v7a/librsync.so &&
+mv libs/armeabi-v7a/buffersu libs/armeabi-v7a/libbuffersu.so &&
 mv libs/x86/scp libs/x86/libscp.so &&
 mv libs/x86/sftp-server libs/x86/libsftp-server.so &&
 mv libs/x86/rsync libs/x86/librsync.so &&
diff --git a/jni/Application.mk b/jni/Application.mk
index 7a1599b..ad06cd3 100644
--- a/jni/Application.mk
+++ b/jni/Application.mk
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-APP_ABI := armeabi x86
+APP_PLATFORM := android-16
+APP_ABI := armeabi-v7a x86