Currently compose needs minSdk 21. Will the final ...
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Saiedmomen
11/03/2019, 7:58 PMCurrently compose needs minSdk 21. Will the final released version support lower API levels?
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Adam Powell
11/03/2019, 8:10 PMwe're not planning on it, no. api 21 devices have been out for a solid 5 years at this point 🙂
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romainguy
11/03/2019, 9:28 PMMore specifically API 21 guarantees a few important things for us, such as render nodes, ART (better GC), render thread, etc.
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ian.shaun.thomas
11/03/2019, 9:59 PMNot to mention the overwhelming majority of users are on 21+
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jessewilson
11/04/2019, 3:12 AMTLSv1.2 !
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Saiedmomen
11/04/2019, 4:18 AMWell unfortunataly a solid 10% of users are on lower API levels. I hope the situation will change by your release time so that big/medium commercial apps will be able to move over
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mzgreen
11/04/2019, 8:14 AMAt ADS Romain said that Compose should be in beta in 2020. So I guess it’ll reach 1.0 stable in a year or so and at that point Lollipop will be 6 years old.