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idunnololz
lemmy.world
idunnololz@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-06-13 |
Modern Android libraries are starting to phase out support for Android 5 (API levels 21 to 22). This makes sense to me since Android 6 was released 10 years ago. Since a lot of libraries are no longer supporting Android 5 it means that to keep dependencies updated, Summit can no longer support Android 5 either. If this is a huge concern to any users of Summit please flag in the comments. Otherwise I will be removing support for these versions of Android in the next release. |
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sbv
sh.itjust.works
sbv@sh.itjust.works Joined: 2023-06-11 |
Do it! |
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Little8Lost
lemmy.world
Little8Lost@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-06-11 |
You could try to prompt those users to install lineage os. Thats an open source android version that can be installed on a lot of phones that can run android. There are some 9+ jear old devices that currently still get support |
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Sunshine (she/her)
lemmy.ca
Sunshine@lemmy.caJoined: 2024-09-16 |
Summit is backwards compatible by 11 versions. Mlem is backwards compatible by 1 version. |
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idunnololz
Moderator
idunnololz@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-13 |
Summit is backwards compatible by 11 versions. Mlem is backwards compatible by 1 version.
It's more common on iOS for apps to not be backwards compatible since devices get OS updates more frequently since Apple controls everything. The problem on Android is you can buy a phone, get 1 major update and then be stuck on that version forever. |
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idunnololz
Moderator
idunnololz@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-13 |
Whoopsies. I misread and I only need to drop support for Android 5. Android 6 will still be supported... For now. |
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