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.

This just applies to new apps. However, from November, existing apps on Android will also need to target an API level within two years of the latest OS release, a level of 31 or higher.

According to Rahman, apps that target API level 32 or lower (Android 12L and below) won't be required to implement this permission change.

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.

Targeting the latest API level is a signal by the developer that they have tried their app on the newest version of Android and confirmed that it works with all the new features.

From 2019 onward, the target API level will advance along with new Android releases. Developers will always need to target OS versions at most one year old.

Android 13 is bringing a new run time notification permission. So that you can opt-out of getting them while installing an app.

Google announced this week the release of the first public preview its SDK Extensions, which leverage modular system components to add APIs to the public SDK for certain previously released API levels ...