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> (both not hosting the working versions and abusing things like their power over the signing keys to quickly deprecate old Android SDKs) Android SDKs aren't g
by grishka 2y ago
> (both not hosting the working versions and abusing things like their power over the signing keys to quickly deprecate old Android SDKs)
Android SDKs aren't getting deprecated. The SDK available on developer.android.com right now can still be used to build an app that runs on devices all the way down to Android 1.5. It's the developers who are dropping older Android versions by raising the minSDK in their apps.
Google Play does allow the developer to keep older app versions available for older Android versions. Again, most developers don't do that.
Google themselves support older Android versions for a very long time. Current versions of GSF and Google Play require Android 4.4, iirc. This came out more than 10 years ago.