Android 15 raises minimum app support level (Goodbye Android 6.0!)

Android 15 is coming later this year. With the latest Developer Preview release, Google hinted that Android 15 raises the minimum app support level, resulting in apps made for Android 6.0 won’t be installable.

Google seems to be banning the installation of apps made for Android 6.0 virtually with the Android 15 release. For quite a while now, Android apps have been required to target at least Android 6.0 (Marshmallow).

Per the AndroidPolice report, the new minimum that Google is working on is that apps will be required to target at least Android 7.1 that’s SDK version 24, whereas Android 15 would be version 35.

It has been tested that an older app build targeting Android 6.0 isn’t getting installed on the Pixel device running Android 15 Developer Preview 2, but installable on Pixel with Android 14.

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