Specifically, beginning with August 2019 new apps from other sources targeting an API level lower than level 26 (Android 8.0 Oreo) will trigger warnings during the installation process in order to ...

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.

In Android, developers target their apps by API level. For instance, Oreo is API level 26. Apps declare an API level to tell devices which API features they support.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...