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david_allisonyesterday at 10:17 PM0 repliesview on HN

Thank you!!

E-waste is awful, as is cutting off old devices. We still backport security fixes to minSdk 21.

To Google's credit, post-21 is a much more pleasant experience and requires very little developer time. API desugaring[0] has worked perfectly, their compatibility classes[1] handle most of the common cases, and there's often very little to actually code[2].

[0] https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support-tab...

[1] https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/appc...

[2] https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/blob/main/compat/s...