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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon suparngp

Lower Android minSdkVersion to API level 19

Open svendroid opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

For my app I need to support API level 19. Therefore it would be necessary to lower the API level to 19.

If you see drawbacks supporting a lower api level feel free to reject this issue. :) In this case I can further use my own build.

svendroid avatar Oct 22 '19 20:10 svendroid

I really didn't want to support anything below 24 initially because I didn't have proper devices to test. Later I decided to support 21 and above after fetching some hardware. I am just worried that with android, without testing on a variety of devices, it is hard to say that it all works. For example, I found out about a restriction on number of files on motorola devices only after testing on a real device even though everything checks out well in the emulators and other brands. If you absolutely don't need API 19, I would like to keep it at 21 until there is a strong demand.

Also, if we go with supporting API 19, we'd have to make sure that we support all the other packages with 19 as well and that is going to be a bit difficult at this moment.

suparngp avatar Oct 23 '19 04:10 suparngp

Sounds valid for me and most new apps won't need to support an API lower than 21. Feel free to close this issue.

svendroid avatar Oct 23 '19 06:10 svendroid