This tag represents the Android Minimum SDK used in an android application, and it is regularly defined in the application manifest.
Questions tagged [android-min-sdk]
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How can I support min sdk 14 if my required lvl was 26?
I need to develop an app which can support android version from 4.0 till latest. But as it was my first app I started to develop it using android jetpack components and so on. My question is can use androidX support library to support older…

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Application crash after changing minSdkversion to 26 on view binding
I am trying to create the .aab file from Android studio and app bundle needs minimum SDK version 26, so I changed the version in all the module Gradle files, and the .aab file got created, but after that when I tried running the app it keeps getting…

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Does Google Play Store automatically updates apps automatically?
If my App has minSDKVersion = 16 and TargetSDKVersion = 28, then will Google somehow upgrade my App to work with devices which use sdk version greater than 28?
And if the same is true for all future versions of SDK then if I dont update my app…

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Many dex files on one machine
I have three machines that I used to build my android project. On all machines, I have the same code, same grade, and same gradle.properties. On all machines is windows.
I have min SDK 23.
On one machine, my APK has 48MB and contains 473 dex…

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minSdk not respected?
Reviewing the reports on the Google Play Console for my app, I can see that ~150 devices among the active installations are running Android versions 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 while I explicitly configured my build.gradle file with minSdkVersion 19.
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What all advantages I can get by increasing minSdk version in android
We have an app on playstore with minSdk version as 15 and we have less than 0.7% active users on api 18 and below. So we were planning to increase our minSdk version to 19. I tried incrementing the minSdk version to 19 and it helped us in reducing…

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Android default min sdk not working
I'm newbie and i'm compiling an android source (Telegram App), my problem is that the build.gradle file contains 4 minSdkVersion's and i can't run my application on lower than sdk 23.
and of course my default min sdk is set to 14. I don't know why…

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Cannot build app with Gradle with flavors and com.google.gms.google-services plugin
When i try to compile my app with flavors based on minSdk i receive an error:
Error:Execution failed for task
':app:processCurrentDebugGoogleServices'.
Please fix the version conflict either by updating the version of the google-services plugin…

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"Error in parsing package" Android HTC Explorer 2.3.5
Currently i migrate my eclipse project into studio but after that when i'm try to test my sign apk in 2.3.5 mobile device it showing me the parse package error.
I know there is a lot of blogs available for how to resolve this problem and many…

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Android Studio - uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 7 cannot be smaller than version 9 declared in library
Until now I had android:minSdkVersion="7" in my app. Later I had to add google play services that require a minSdkVersion="9". And I got this error:
uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 7 cannot be smaller than version 9 declared in…

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TextureView setSurfaceTexture method requires API 16 level
TextureView.setSurfaceTexture method requires API level 16, but my current min 14, how can I use this method in 14, 15 API's?
UPDATE (add code)
Layout:

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App is incompatible with LGE Nexus 4 and 5
I recently updated my app (I don't remember what I did) and now it doesn't show up in the PlayStore nor download to my Nexus 4, Nexus 5, nor Nexus 9. What about my target SDK or build gradle is causing this to happen? My account has no alerts and…

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App is not running in lower sdk than 21 though the minSdk is 17
In my app previously I added cardview and material tab. The app was running in all compatible device from SDK 17-21, but after adding the support design library, the app is crashing on SDKs lower than 21.
My dependencies are:
compile…

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Android Studio, No, minSdk(API 14) > deviceSdk(API 1), moto G, Ubuntu 15.04
I just installed Android Studio (v1.4) on Ubuntu 15.04 (64) and am unable to connect to my Moto G (Android 5.0.2) to run the application I made from a tutorial.
When asked to choose a device, I get the following choice for my device:
TA9290IPXK…

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What is minSDK for Percent Support Library?
I am not able to find it in official documentation, is there any info what is minSDK for new Percent Support Library?

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