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Right, they had a deadline for apps that required them to update the target SDKs or the apps would be removed from the Store. Mine was mid-last year. It was a
by l72 3y ago
Right, they had a deadline for apps that required them to update the target SDKs or the apps would be removed from the Store.
Mine was mid-last year. It was a huge pain, since my apps are really a PWA with a wrapper around it and is updated through the web. This means that I hadn't update the apps in the app store in a few years, as it wasn't necessary.
And of course, the wrapper I was using (cordova) didn't support some things from the new SDK, so I had to upgrade to a new major version. Anyway, it was a huge pain to upgrade all that for no functional changes for the end user, for the 10-ish open source apps I built and maintain.
Slightly off-topic, but Android does now support a much better method for submitting PWAs[1] that I'll move to the next time Android requires me to update the target SDK of every app. Hopefully, they'll continue supporting that and it won't require new submissions after that.
[1] https://developers.google.com/codelabs/pwa-in-play#0 https://developers.google.com/codelabs/pwa-in-play#0