Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 5th Edition
by Bryan Sills, Brian Gardner, Kristin Marsicano, Chris Stewart
Android Versions
This book teaches Android development for the versions of Android in wide use at the time of writing. For this edition, that is Android 7.0 Nougat (N, API level 24) – Android 12L (Sv2, API level 32). That being said, since Google has invested heavily in providing backward-compatible solutions for Android, most of the code in this book will still work on older versions of Android – often supporting versions as old as Android 5.0 Lollipop (L, API level 21).
While there is still limited use of older versions of Android, we find that for many developers the amount of effort required to support those versions is not worth the reward. You will learn more about Android versions and how to pick the right version for your application ...
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