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API 28 is released in 2018, 2 versions behind the latest. It's a sad state of software development that we so quickly drop support for older hardware, it contr
by david_allison 6y ago
API 28 is released in 2018, 2 versions behind the latest.
It's a sad state of software development that we so quickly drop support for older hardware, it contributes massively to e-waste, although Android manufacturers shoulder a lot of the blame for not supporting OS upgrades.
Context: Put out a (hopefully) final release for API 16 last month. It'll mean that 15,000 people can no longer update the app. From analytics, we still have users on Android 1.5 (API 3)
- spicybright 6y agoWowie, how many users run api 3?
- david_allison 6y agoNegligible: 26 today, up from ~3 around Q4 2020. Not sure if that's Google Play's metrics being played with, but it's shocking that there appear to be installs on something that old (it's well before TLS 1.2 support on Android, and most of the internet will be broken)