#Best android versions software
Over time it gets progressively harder and more complicated to support old versions of software as the tools needed to interact with it move on. As the various tools that developers use receive updates and new features, they’re usually optimised to work best with the latest versions of other programs too. In fact, the work isn’t just greater in quantity, it’s usually more complicated to support older versions too. Obviously while there are still a significant number of users using the old version, this work is probably justified, but at some point the ROI for those extra work hours creeps into the negative and most other arguments in favour of ongoing support usually take a back seat to the financial consideration. When many versions are supported, there are a lot more issues to resolve, so the development takes longer. Each version is different and has different issues that need handling. The main reason why development companies stop supporting older versions (of all sorts of software) is because continuing support requires extra work. Why raise minimum supported versions generally? From now on, the lowest level of Android we’ll be supporting is Android 6 (Marshmallow). Now we think it’s the right time to do it again. The last time we did it was back in August of 2017. While it does leave a small number of users on old versions of Android behind, we still think that the benefits of raising the minimum supported version far outweigh any negatives, especially when this move is well timed.
Every once in a while, we raise the minimum version of Android that we support in our development.
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