Android 8.0 (API level 26) from August 1, 2018

[mvl22]

"Google Play will require that new apps target at least Android 8.0 (API level 26) from August 1, 2018, and that app updates target Android 8.0 from November 1, 2018."

https://developer.android.com/distribute/best-practices/develop/target-sdk

How near are we on that?

[oliverlockwood]

See https://github.com/cyclestreets/android/blob/master/config.properties#L13-L15.

At the time of writing this:

compileSdkVersion=26
minSdkVersion=23
targetSdkVersion=23

Thanks for raising this issue. There's clearly some work for us to do before November. (This might be as simple as changing the targetSdkVersion, but there might be things this uncovers.)

[oliverlockwood]

When we update this, it might be worth raising the minSdkVersion to 24 as well, as this allows a whole bunch more useful language features (Java 8 e.g. default methods on interfaces, etc.)

[mvl22]

minSdkVersion to 24

I believe that takes us to Android 7.0 released on August 22, 2016. That seems quite recent to me, and I suspect will cut a significant amount of our current userbase out who have phones older than 22 months. I think we'd need a very good reason to do that beyond just coding purity.

[oliverlockwood]

Fair point!