Google unveiled the 2019 API level requirements for applications hitting the Play Store this year as well as for existing apps planned for future updates.

This just applies to new apps. However, from November, existing apps on Android will also need to target an API level within two years of the latest OS release, a level of 31 or higher.

Beginning on November 1, 2022, existing apps that don’t target an API level that is within two years of the most recent major Android release won’t be available for download for users of ...

API Level 14 corresponds to Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, which is six years old! Android 8.1 Oreo still contains all the components needed to make these six-year-old apps work.

From 2019 onward, the target API level will advance along with new Android releases. Developers will always need to target OS versions at most one year old.

Today, with the official release of the Nexus 4, Nexus 10, and Nexus 7 HSPA+, Google has released the Android 4.2 SDK, "a new and improved Jelly Bean." Along with the SDK release, Google has made ...

For all the talk of firmware fragmentation in the platform, reaching 8 out of 9 devices by focussing on code that runs on 2.3.3 or higher (which is API level 10 and upwards in Android's ...