Again, the explanation is unfortunately quite vague. As a stopgap, they've added an option to enable them with an explicit warning of this behavior now being present. (Presumably, they were disabled as a result of this decision. Somehow, in some method that isn't described, that worked out to a decision between breaking savestates or removing them from Android. The savestate issue isn't explained in much detail by the developers, but it seems to stem from a combination of automatic updates being paired with a policy of non-backward compatibility between builds when it comes to savestates.
Landscape mode is now forced by default as well on Android, and the developers would also like to apologize for some recent changes which broke existing savestates without warning for many. According to the latest progress report, Dolphin now has support for on-phone rumble/vibration in GameCube titles. GameCube Controllers of any brand seem to work Bongos work, but Dolphin has to manually tell the game bongos are plugged in GameCube Keyboard Controller partially works - keyboard itself is non-functional, but can be used as a standard controller. Dolphin Emulator - the popular Wii and GameCube emulator - recently returned to the Play Store, making it easy to keep updated as Android beta development continues, and so it has.