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.

Google has updated its API level requirements. Developers of new apps or providing updates are rqeuired to target Android 10 API or above.

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 ...

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.

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.

A new update heading to Android later this year means that apps that are over two years old will need to update their API target in order to stay accessible on newer devices. Currently, Android ...

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 ...

Google has been ramping up its security requirements for Android apps recently. Earlier this year, it announced deadlines for the transition to 64-bit applications, and also stated that it rejected 55 ...

For all the talk of firmware fragmentation in the platform, reaching 8 out of 9 devices by focussing on code that runs on 2.3.3 or higher (which is API level 10 and upwards in Android's ...

Today, with the official release of the Nexus 4, Nexus 10, and Nexus 7 HSPA+, Google has released the Android 4.2 SDK, "a new and improved Jelly Bean." Along with the SDK release, Google has made ...