[TECHNICAL] Upgrade min SDK to Android 7.0 (v24)

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[TECHNICAL] Upgrade min SDK to Android 7.0 (v24) #4230

Closed Aitorbp closed 8 months ago

Aitorbp commented 11 months ago

At the moment our min SDK version is Android 6 (v23) and I think that it could be time to upgrade to Android 7.0 (v24). This is needed to upgrade Kotlin version as well:

https://github.com/owncloud/android/pull/4216

Users will be warned in 4.2 and it will be effective in the next feature release.

TASKS

[x] Research (if needed)
[x] Create branch technical/upgrade_min_sdk_to_android_7
[x] Development tasks
[ ] Code review and apply changes requested
[ ] Design test plan
[ ] QA
[ ] Merge branch feature/feature_name into master

michaelstingl commented 11 months ago

Post / link to the Android version marketshare chart?

jesmrec commented 11 months ago

official info shown by android studio that seems to be broken ftm. Will update as soon as is again available.

JuancaG05 commented 11 months ago

Official information shown by Android Studio continues broken, so we can take as a reference the percentages in Play Store referred to our app:

user_percentages

As you can see here, the percentage of users using Android 6 (SDK 23) is <1%. We could even upgrade it to SDK 25 (Android 7.1), which is still <1%.

michaelstingl commented 11 months ago

Checked here: https://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-android-sdk-versions

7.0+ works for me 👍

JuancaG05 commented 10 months ago

Android Studio was updated to Android Studio Hedgehog version and now the window with this info seems to work:

Numbers are more or less similar to the appbrain webpage, so we could keep the same decision 👍