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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Since then, Android 13 has emerged as API 33, and Google has already hinted at Android 14 being API level 34 in AOSP (Android Open Source Project), suggesting that Android 13L will likely be skipped.

The target API level doesn't have anything to do with the minimum version of Android that an app will run on (that would be the second big app setting, the "minimum API level"); it just lets apps ...

Google has confirmed that it will no longer support Android Ice Cream Sandwich in the Play Services APK. This means that app developers will need to target Android 4.1 as the oldest supported ...