True" hi, Vlad here. Android runs on many devices with different versions. Each year, there is a new Android version, and each year, all versions become unused. As Android developers, we want to have control over this process in our applications and ensure that we stop supporting barely used Android versions and prepare for the new ones. This is where the min SDK version and target SDK version come in. With the min SDK version, we set a minimum supported version in our application, and therefore, we stop supporting Android versions below our setting. There is no need to spend time and support older versions of Android if they are not used. However, how do we decide what min SDK version to support? If you are creating a new app, you can use these numbers from Android Studio. Click on "Help me choose" to see cumulative distributions of Android versions or follow general advice and set your min SDK version based on the latest entry in this Twitter handle. If you have an existing project, you have better tools for checking Android versions. Just open your Play Console and see the app stats. Min SDK version is used by the Play Store to determine if the app can be installed on the user's device. It's also used by Lint in your project, and it will warn you if you use any API higher than the min SDK version. For example, if you have min SDK version as 21 but you want to use notification channels, which were introduced in API 26, this API is not available in Android X. Lint will give you a warning that you can't use this API because your app can be launched on devices with APIs from 21 to 25, and it will lead to a crash. Because of this,...
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