mtrezza
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2 years ago Maybe this can be a guidance: https://developer.android.com/google/play/requirements/target-sdk; you could also look at the API adoption chart and define a threshold for on how many devices this library should be usable.
If you say minSdk is API 24, that means it will be usable on 91.7% of devices, which is really not much. In other words, the lib won't work in 1 of 10 devices. I would set minSdk 21. Android 5.x introduced many security features that were missing in 4.x, and it supports 98.6% of devices.
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Related to #95 - the branch needs some refreshing. We should also determine the minimum API version that makes sense for this round of updates - we could stay conservative and move it to 21 (bare minimum IMO) or raise it to 24 unless there are some counter-arguments for it.