Announcement: Support for Android 5 and 6 is deprecated as of v1.12

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As of version v1.12, support for Android 5, Android 5.1 and Android 6 is deprecated and will be removed in a future update.

Old Android versions generate a significant chunk of error reports and bugs, while being only used by very few devices. These platforms are also lacking APIs and features, hindering app development. We are also unable to test on those platforms.

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Update 2021-07-15: Android 5-6 devices will not receive any further feature updates. With v1.13, the minimum required API level will be raised to 24 (Android 7). We are still figuring out how to best build for legacy devices; those devices will probably receive a v1.12.3 instead.

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If you want to step up and maintain a build for those versions, you should have:

1. Test hardware in that version range (5.1-6)
2. Experience with Android development, Android's version of linux, go, and cross compiling.
3. Capacity and willingness to commit to maintaining this, which means:
   • backporting features and bugfixes
   • fixing old-version specific issues
   • answering issue reports