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Mehmood
Mehmood

Reputation: 33

Devices No Longer Supported | When releasing app on google playstore

  1. Devices No Longer Supported

Change Minimum API 16 TO API 19

Main Problem

See Image "Devices No Longer Supported" Is that Ok ..?

What i did

See Image "Change Minimum API 16 TO API 19" Because Minimum API Level is 19 in Unity2020.1.0

i also downloaded API level 16-17 on SDK .?

For Knowledge

is it possible to get Minimum API Level 16 in Unity 2020.1.0 ..? or is this normal ..? Mean its ok to upload with Minimum API Level 19 ..? is there any way to get all devices support ..? Any suggestion , Help , Advice ..? Thank you in advance

Upvotes: 1

Views: 422

Answers (2)

Akhrorjon
Akhrorjon

Reputation: 154

It is ok that some older devices out of support, as they no longer support some features of Unity2020.1.0+. For Google Play, it just warns you about the issue, just leave it if you do not consider about the older devices. But, if you still want to support some devices with API 16+, then just download Unity 2019.2+ from archieve. https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/AndroidSdkVersions.html

Upvotes: 3

leo Quint
leo Quint

Reputation: 787

Its your app so it is OK to cut support to lower APIs but,

Usually you want to keep support for the widest number of devices if possible since then more people can download your app. Now if your app uses newer features that are only available in unity 2020.1.0+ you might want to either find a different in game solution or simply drop support. On your developper dashboard somewhere you should be able to find out how many users for each API downloaded your game. So you can check if they make up any significant amount of users.

I work at a company that makes a lot of kids games so we usually try and keep as much support for older devices as possible since kids tend to use hand me downs.

Now keep in mind that API 19 -> Kit kat is over 7 year old already. So keeping compatibiliy for devices even older than that may not be worth the trouble. They might already have a hard time running your game.

Upvotes: 0

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