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Bump minSdk to 23 #5452

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As most of AndroidX libraries already require minSdk 23, there's very little benefit for us supporting anything below it.

Our cumulative OS distribution (based on our data) shows 98.65% for API 23 (Android 6), so we should be good here as well.

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romtsn commented on Jun 24, 2026
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Closing in favour of #5508
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closed this as a duplicateof Raise minSdkVersion from 21 to 26 in the next major release #5508 on Jun 24, 2026
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