Instead of having a fat APK file, I would like to use just the armeabi files and remove the armeabi-v7a folder.
The opposite is a much better strategy. If you have minSdkVersion
to 14 and upload your apk to the play store, you'll notice you'll support the same number of devices whether you support armeabi
or not. Therefore, there are no devices with Android 4 or higher which would benefit from armeabi
at all.
This is probably why the Android NDK doesn't even support armeabi
anymore as per revision r17b. [source]