Post #2428604
2025-12-12 13:31 UTC
@rangelovd@mastodon.ml @dantescanline@autonomous.zone 8 years ago, Android 8.1 was just freshly released. Here's what Android Studio defaults to for the minimum SDK version for new apps. Even if some developers might change this, most won't, so most new apps simply won't work on Android versions older than 10.0.
And that doesn't even consider that some apps will opt to even higher version requirements simply because they require or wish to use newer features (like secure key storage, specific hardware APIs or similar).
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@rangelovd@mastodon.ml 2025-12-12 13:40
@larma@mastodon.social @dantescanline@autonomous.zone That's fair! Clearly I am not an average user so maybe that's why I haven't ever noticed.
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@rangelovd@mastodon.ml 2025-12-12 13:44
@larma@mastodon.social @dantescanline@autonomous.zone though I'm not sure how is this still relevant. I'm just an unfortunate user of unsupported device like people with Nvidia Pascal GPUs. Many modern phones receive OS updates up to 7 years. This it 7 years of the most latest OS version after which there is still a lot of time before things stop working.