android: Lower minSdkVersion to 26, aka Android 8 Oreo #1901
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@sphh Here's a zipfile of an APK built from this PR branch: It should be just like the latest release (v30.0.265), except with the metadata saying it supports Android 8. As discussed in #1898, please try that out, and let us know if it works! (You'll need to download the file first on your computer and unzip it; GitHub has a 25 MB limit on uploaded files, and wrapping it in zip is the way I got this file under that limit.) |
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If your phone has an unusual CPU, that file might be unable to be installed in the first place. (That's the APK only for 64-bit ARM devices, which is almost all mobile devices these days.) If so I can post APKs for the other two possible CPU architectures and we can see which one works. (Again that's in order to fit GitHub's upload-size limit. The APKs we post as releases — where I guess the same limits don't apply — include support for all three architectures.) |
Fixes zulip#1898. In general, our policy for supporting old OS versions is described here (in the legacy app's repo, but it applies equally to this app): https://github.com/zulip/zulip-mobile/blob/eb8505c4a/docs/architecture/platform-versions.md So for versions old enough that they represent a very small fraction of our overall user base, we don't have the resources to actively maintain support; but if the app works on those versions, we leave them supported in the app's metadata. When we increased the minimum to Android 9, the reason was that we weren't sure whether things would break on older Android versions, and just didn't have a device older than Android 9 to test on: https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/channel/243-mobile-team/topic/flutter.3A.20Java.20versions.3F/near/1775991 But in zulip#1898 we've learned that the app does in fact work on Android 8. So restore that support in the app's manifest.
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@sphh confirmed that that build works for them on Android 8: So I've rebased this and filled out the commit message, and it's ready for review. |
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Fixes #1898.