rethink-app please, add min_sdk 21 (android 5.0) support

please, add min_sdk 21 (android 5.0) support ! we have a huge amount of devices with this os .. or, if not possible, then at least support min_sdk 22 (android 5.1) .. many thanks in advance !!!

Jun 21 '21 06:06 DI555

I think the androidx open source library that we use supports 6+ only. Targetting 5 is going to be very hard to do. @hussainmohd-a ?

Jun 23 '21 07:06 ignoramous

according to my info , there in library should be support for minimal sdk 21 , so i hope for it !!!

Jul 12 '21 11:07 DI555

or, may be, just min_sdk 22 (android 5.1) there support now exist only.. this should be great in RT either!!!

Jan 22 '22 21:01 DI555

It is unlikely we ever support Android 5. We tried but quite simply too many androidx (core libs) simply don't work on Android 5 as-is and need a bunch of re-organzing existing code-base. Given Android 6+ is close to 95% of all Androids (ref), there's simply too much work to be done for the remaining 3% or so on Android 5 / 5.1 :(

That said, we're open to merging pull requests from anyone else willing to spend time on migrating Rethink to Android 5.

Jan 12 '23 15:01 ignoramous