I just had to test the newest SPD 2.5.0b3 on the oldest Android device I have, and I am proud to say that it works great!
My old Zeki nearly went into the trash this month as nearly all support for 4x has ceased. Then I discovered XPlayer, a 3rd party app designed to run MKV movies in h265 format. Along with WiFi FTP I am able to stream quality movies on this old tablet.
Better still, I can now play one of the best roguelikes ever on it! Thank you 00-Evan for not writing off older hardware.
That’s great, I’m always happy to see Shattered still chugging along on these older devices.
It’s not going to hit for a little while yet, but unfortunately it does look like support for Android 4.3- and then 4.4 may need to go in a future update, perhaps in 2025. The TL;DR is that Google is dropping support for the Dalvik runtime (which was replaced by ART in android 5) in most of their build tools, which means that a lot of code libraries are dropping support in their latest versions.
Any deadlines for 6.0 support?
Nope, it’s difficult to know where things will be years in the future but atm it’s only 4.4- that has any form of support deadline.
If only I had a dollar for every good working app that Google has broken for no reason whatsoever other than the force people to upgrade I’d be a multi-millionaire.
