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PSA: Summit will no longer support Android 5 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by idunnololz@lemmy.world to c/summit@lemmy.world

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Modern Android libraries are starting to phase out support for Android 5 (API levels 21 to 22). This makes sense to me since Android 6 was released 10 years ago.

Since a lot of libraries are no longer supporting Android 5 it means that to keep dependencies updated, Summit can no longer support Android 5 either.

If this is a huge concern to any users of Summit please flag in the comments. Otherwise I will be removing support for these versions of Android in the next release.

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[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's more common on iOS for apps to not be backwards compatible since devices get OS updates more frequently since Apple controls everything.

The problem on Android is you can buy a phone, get 1 major update and then be stuck on that version forever.