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`android-sdk-min` is 29
The generated settings.gradle.kts file in the .build folder has this line:
version("android-sdk-min", "29")
That's kinda high. According to the Android Studio "Help me choose" dialog, supporting API level 29 and higher only supports 87.6% of users as of April 1, 2025.
When creating a new project as of today, Android Studio recommends supporting at least back to API 24.
If I manually override this in Android/app/build.gradle.kts, will that break anything?
TBH, I don't recall where the 29 min SDK level came from. I just tried bumping it down to 26 with the Hello Skip sample, and it works fine. Any lower, and we get an error about the <adaptive-icon> element in the AndroidManifest.xml, but if that was stripped out, you might be able to bring it even lower.
Some of Skip's features, like dark mode synchronization with the system default setting, will only work in API 29 or higher. But these shouldn't prevent your app from running.
I recommend trying to bump it down and experimenting on an emulator with an older minimum API and see if it works OK.
P.S. SkipFuse (i.e., non-transpiled native Swift on Android) does require API 28 or higher, because that is the minimum version that the official Swift Android SDK will support. This doesn't affect SkipLite transpiled apps, only SkipFuse.