Comment by Too

17 days ago

Why are they supporting Android 5? It’s over 10 years old, the devices running it after updates even older. Mobile devices from that era must have a real tough time to browse the modern bloated web. It shouldn’t even be possible to publish to Play store when targeting such an old API level. Who is the user base? Hackers who refurbished their old OnePlus, run it with charger always plugged in, didn’t upgrade to a newer LineageOS, and installed an alternative App Store, just for the sake of it? While novel, it’s a steep price to pay, as we see here it is slowing down development for the rest of us.