C++ is a bit of a minefield on Android. Much functionality still doesn't work, and Android can't decide on which C++ standard library to use, so it provides 3 different ones, all of which are incompatible with each other. (It looks like clang is coming too which will add a new compiler and a 4th standard library.)
As middleware, SDL might be distributed as a binary and intermixed with other projects already using C++. If C++ is intermixed in a bad way, bad things will happen. Removing dependencies on C++ will avoid this problem and downstream users won't have to worry/care.
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rename : src/core/android/SDL_android.cpp => src/core/android/SDL_android.c
rename : src/main/android/SDL_android_main.cpp => src/main/android/SDL_android_main.c
Added information on how to customize your application name and icon.
Added information on using STL with an Android application
Increased the minimum API level to 10, because that's the lowest API
that currently has an emulator image for testing.