March 29, 2024
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Google announced this week that it’s ending Google Play Services support for Ice Cream Sandwich for future Play Service API releases. This means that for devices running Ice Cream Sandwich, the Google Play Store will no longer update the Play Services.

Google is instead having developers target API level 16 i.e Android 4.1 Jelly Bean as the minimum level of support. But developers can continue to maintain and update a version of their apps specifically for Ice Cream Sandwich users that support API level 14 or 15 but it seems unlikely that many will do so.

This means that if your device is running Ice Cream Sandwich , you won’t be able to see or download apps that have a minimum of API level 16 support. This is where a developer could offer two different versions of their app, one for ICS and earlier and one for Jelly Bean and later.

According to Google’s developer dashboard, as of October 26th, there are only 0.03 percent of Android users that were still running Ice Cream Sandwich. Still, 0.03 percent of the nearly 2 billion Android phones in the world works out to a 6 million or so phones and tablets that might be affected even if its likely that many of them aren’t still in active use.

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