Comment on Google Play is beyond annoying
wieli99@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoWdym arbitrary metric? If nothing would have changed then there would be no build errors and the whole process would take a few mins.
Now since something does break, that means that there’s some deprecated code which needs updating.
Knusper@feddit.de 1 year ago
With arbitrary metric, I mean that Google doesn’t detect whether you’re actually using deprecated APIs, they just detect that you’ve declared to be targeting Android API version 27 and that 27 is smaller than 31. Especially with smaller apps, you may have to go through the whole release process just to increment that number, with no actual code changes.
Another rather arbitrary metric is how often and quickly they want to deprecate APIs. In other ecosystems, you update your app to fix security issues or because you’re developing new features. On Android, you often end up updating, because your Googly overlord demands an update.