Older Android versions compatibility

[m3thm4th]

There are a lot of Android 7, 8 and 9 devices around. It seems this application does not really need to target such a high SDK.

[jroddev]

Target SDK or Minimum SDK?
These are currently set as

minSdk 29
targetSdk 33

There may be some issues with the storage scopes code recently added for import/export.
I'll need to do some checks.
If everything works fine then I will lower the requirement in the next release

[m3thm4th]

Yes I meant minSDK of course, to make the app work on more devices

[jroddev]

@m3thm4th
0.1.5 now supports minSDK 27.

I'm having some issues with SDK 25 that I believe to be related to the Emulator and Android Studio, not to the actual application. If someone can test and confirm with 25 I would be happy to relax the restriction. In the meantime I'll keep trying to fix my setup.

[ShareASmile]

Yes I meant minSDK of course

@m3thm4th then would you rename issue to

Lower App's MinSDK from 29 to 25

to correctly reflect the thread for future readers of this issue specially which have android devices stuck on Android versions lower than 10.

[ShareASmile]

If someone can test and confirm with 25

@jroddev , I have android 6 device on api 26 , i can help in testing if that can be helpful.

Currently MinSDK 26 can be tested, later ANDROID 5 can be tested if someone with actual device agrees to test

[ShareASmile]

@jroddev For references how that was done in other Apps
JunkFood02/Seal#27

jamal2362/URL-Radio#1

[ShareASmile]

@m3thm4th why not Android 5 or 6 in the issue title? that's possible if tested properly & owner of repo agrees to that

[jroddev]

Hey everyone. For 0.1.7 preview I have dropped minSdk support from 27 to 21 (Android 5).

You can test out the support with the preview apk
android-oss-release-tracker-release-v0.1.7-preview.apk

Artifact is added along side the 0.1.6 release.

If you can confirm that things work on any of these lower version I'm happy to drop it. Just want to avoid the situation I drop it too low and people end up downloading a broken app.

[m3thm4th]

Seems to be working