Google has updated its chart showing the percentage of Android devices running various versions of the OS, but there are still no details about Android 12’s adoption rate. Historically, Google ...

Older versions continue to lose their place on the distribution chart, and now Ice ... has just dropped support for API levels 14 and 15, marking the end of Android Ice Cream Sandwich.

Every new version of Android comes with a new API level, which changes how the app framework functions, adding new features, new restrictions, and new security measures. Currently, developers can ...

If an API level is old, the Android OS will honor that on higher versions with a backward compatibility mode of sorts. New features won't be available, but new restrictions won't apply ...

Starting from November 1, 2022, all newly released/published apps must target an Android API level released within one year from the latest major Android version release. API level targeting ...

Ever since they promised to help developers and slow the growing problem of Android fragmentation, Google has been quite consistent in updating their platform version chart, which shows how many ...

Along with updated developer preview images for the Nexus 5 and Nexus 7, Google has today released, as promised, the SDK for Android 5.0. The new SDK brings API level 21 to the Android SDK ...