Posted by Aurimas Liutikas, Software program Engineer on AndroidX

AndroidX libraries are shifting to a default minimal supported Android API stage 19 (beforehand 14) beginning with releases in October, 2023. Based on Play Retailer check-in knowledge, practically all Android customers have units on API 19 or newer, so it’s not essential to assist legacy variations. This transformation will assist AndroidX libraries maximize the potential variety of customers for app builders and aligns with Google Play Companies and Android NDK.

In case you are presently supporting a decrease minSdkVersion, we advocate rising that worth to 19 and cleansing up any code to assist prior variations or in case you are unable to take action for enterprise causes it is best to keep on the earlier variations of AndroidX.