Doing this analysis by SKU (device model) makes the picture look far worse than it is. You should be looking at users. Ideally you'd be looking at your own app'

Doing this analysis by SKU (device model) makes the picture look far worse than it is. You should be looking at users. Ideally you'd be looking at your own app's users which may differ from the general Play Store usage quite significantly. The most representative public data for a US centric app is Mixpanel's [1]. This has lined up with most of the apps I've worked on more closely than Google's own dashboard [2]. If I were starting an app today with no data, I would set my minSDK to Lollipop (21). If I had an existing app I'd be dropping support of any version used by <1-3% of my user base. [1] https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/android_os_adoption https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/android_os_adoption [2] https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards