API features available only above API 24

API 26 (Android 8.0 Oreo)

• Autosizing TextViews (use app:autoSizeTextType from support library instead)
• Justifying TextViews using android:justificationMode="inter_word"
• Adaptive icons
• Energy profiler in Profiler
• A lot of convenience functions in the Color class
• Year.now.getValue(), ported directly from Java 1.8 as an improvement over Calendar
  • Do I have to update copyright year annually? Better from a UX perspective? But it would be harder to automate the update of the copyright year (range) in the GitHub README than in the app.

API 29 (Android 10 Q)

• ID_NULL (use ResourcesCompat.ID_NULL instead)

minSdkVersion of dependencies

Your app’s minSdkVersion must be at least as high as your dependencies’ minSdkVersion! (Source)

As of Aug 2024:

• Material: API 21 (Android 5.0 Lollipop)
• Media3: API 19 (Android 4.4 KitKat)
• LeakCanary: API 14 (Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich)

As of Jan 2023:

• Material: API 14 (Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich)
• ExoPlayer: API 16 (Android 4.1 Jelly Bean)
• Open Source Software Licenses: not applicable
• LeakCanary: API 14 (Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich)

Android distribution chart

Aug 2024

Aug 2022

Nov 2021

(To download, open Android Studio > 'Create New Project' Wizard > choose any Activity > Help me choose minimum SDK.)