Update the minimum SDK version required for the application.
Why
The goal is to reach more people. After some research it turned out that (in contrast to my original believes) there are still quite a few phones out that that still run Android 4.4 KitKat (which uses SDK 19 as opposed to 21). The number of Android phones is ~19% while Lollipop (5.0 and 5.1 combined) is ~32% and Marshmallow (6.0) ~31%. [Source](Source: https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html)
How
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Notes
To be sure this work you could try to build the app locally.
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What
Update the minimum SDK version required for the application.
Why
The goal is to reach more people. After some research it turned out that (in contrast to my original believes) there are still quite a few phones out that that still run Android 4.4 KitKat (which uses SDK 19 as opposed to 21). The number of Android phones is ~19% while Lollipop (5.0 and 5.1 combined) is ~32% and Marshmallow (6.0) ~31%. [Source](Source: https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html)
How
n/a
Notes
To be sure this work you could try to build the app locally.