What version of Android should I develop for?

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How should I make the choice ? What are the parameters I should take into account ?

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This is a direct quote from the Android Docs:

Generally, it’s a good practice to support about 90% of the active devices, while targeting your app to the latest version.

In a practical sense, this is impossible unless you had an unlimited budget.

Even Android themselves are only releasing security updates from version 8 onward.

As of right now, I recommend supporting Android 7 onward. This should cover 57.9% of market share.

If you scroll to the bottom of this page, there is a table that shows Android support information.

It will be updated monthly as the figures I quote above will change with time.

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