Can you set minimum Android version lower than 4.4?

[Hyoct]

Hey there, I was wondering if it's possible to build a Fusion Android app with a minimum version lower than 4.4 (Build R293.10)

Thanks!

[NaitorStudios]

I get the feel, I have an old Galaxy Y with Android 2.3.5 or something, I wanted to turn it into a virtual pet lol

[Fernando]

Short answer, yes.

[NaitorStudios]

Yes? How exactly? Does it depend on the Build API? Cause that Minimum Android version goes only back to 4.4, which I was expecting it to prevent installing the apk on old devices...
Edit: The Build API selector can only go back to 18

[Hyoct]

How would I be able to set it lower?

[Fernando]

Why you want set lower?, 4.4 is android 18 and the code is done fitting this base API. Also, all C/C++ library were built using API 18

Google

https://android-developers.googleblo...elly-bean.html


Amazon

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fi...fire-os-6.html

hope this helps

[NaitorStudios]

Well, for me it was to create and side-load apps on Gingerbread phone, it can't even connect to PlayStore anymore, so thought it would be cool if I could make some apps for it lol

[Fernando]

Gingerbread really?, this version has a heap size limitation, so any big game is not really possible and with the current code won't really run OK.

[NaitorStudios]

Funny thing is that it was the phone I've used when the Android exporter was released, despite being an awful phone it did managed to run impressively well back then.
I think I still have some Fusion APKs compatible with it!

[Hyoct]

Yeah, what he said. I also recall being able to build with as low as 4.0, which is the case to one of my games. It has over 100k installs and the new updates are giving compatibility issues to those users who have older Android versions.