When you upload an APK, it must meet Google Play’s target API level requirements.

Starting on August 31, 2023:

  • New apps must target Android 13 (API level 33) or higher; except for Wear OS apps, which must target a version between Android 11 (API level 30) and Android 13 (API level 33), inclusive.

  • App updates must target Android 13 or higher and adjust for behavioral changes in Android 13; except for Wear OS apps, which must target Android 11.

Permanently private apps—which are restricted to users in a specific organization and are intended for internal distribution only—aren’t required to meet the target API level requirements.

  • severien@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I have a small app on the play store. It’s finished, has a small user base and doesn’t really need updates.

    But I’ll now let google delist it. The API level isn’t even the main reason, it’s the other X warnings which jumped at me when logging into developer console about new rules and guidelines I need to satisfy. I’ve had enough of the hamster wheel.

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      1 year ago

      the app won’t be delisted. you just won’t be able to submit an update unless you up the targetSDK at that moment