Google unveiled the 2019 API level requirements for applications hitting the Play Store this year as well as for existing apps planned for future updates.

API Level 14 corresponds to Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, which is six years old! Android 8.1 Oreo still contains all the components needed to make these six-year-old apps work.

Google Play is moving forward in its war on old, un-updated apps. The Play Store has had a rolling minimum level for Android version support for a while now; developers have to use a "target API ...

Validate that your current Android apps run on the new API 21 level with ART enabled. And if you use the NDK for your C/C++ Android apps, validate against the 64-bit emulator.

There likely will not be an Android 13L. Android 13 is API level 33 and Android 14’s API level appears to be 34. Google is likely skipping 13L because the features of 12L are already ...

Welcome API Level 22, download Android 5.1 emulations Talking of the latest update to Android (Version 5.1 of Lollipop rolls out)… Google has just officially announced the 5.1 SDK, which now ...

Starting from August 2019, new app submissions to the Play Store will be expected to target API level 28, which is Android 9.0 Pie.

Google Play will soon hide older apps for new users to encourage developers to support the latest Android functionality. Google is expanding Play’s Target Level API requirements.