That's a disclaimer in the bug submission page.
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Current min is 4 current target is 5, 14 requires target 6, guess i can start there.
The question was about enforced minimums throughout versions, i guess only 14 has that requirement.
I'll make sure to tell that to my customers running Android 4.
Define cheap.
Define better.
Define good.
That's for GooglePlay and the only mention of minimum requirements for targetSdk
is for Android 14.
Can't give US Corpos money that way... gotta buy US hardware. 'Murica!
It's the protocol underlying typical (and unsafe) SMS messages. Maybe this news is why the FBI decided to break character and recommend Signal.
The news itself... meh... not really news and neglects to mention the US does it too (and most likely to their own citizens as well).
Like, its my phone, and some app can just decide to disable a fuction of my phone.
Is it your phone though?
It's usually the opposite...
It's self-destruct and it's a feature!