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Comment by liendolucas | Hacker News Reader

Good. Developers should follow suit. Each day I blame myself for having got into what the industry has become: a digital sisyphean nightmare. Either update or die.

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Agreed, and iOS devs should follow suit too. If the store you're distributing with isn't the best option for you, you should find a better partner.

not a developer here, but doesn't somebody make a service that can just "update" the app every day by moving functions around in the make file or something? Pointless rules deserve pointless solutions.

No issue is that with new Android versions, it wont work.

Each new Android SDK has breaking changes to the API. All of them break compatibility.

Oh, nice. So they break it because they don’t care about devs…or they break it to test which apps are active enough to still get paid.

Google's, somewhat difficult to swallow, official reasoning is:

> Android 15 builds on the the changes that were made in Android 14 and extends this security further. In Android 15, apps with a targetSdkVersion lower than 24 can't be installed. Requiring apps to meet modern API levels helps to ensure better security and privacy.

Supporting legacy apps makes no money. Microsoft used to pour pure gold into backwards compatibility, but they stopped once they realized that nobody outside hackernews cares.

Let's count the days until someone builds an AI solution that does just that and adopts existing apps to the new SDK without breaking anything or changing functionality.

Anyone already started building this? :-).

Would bring my social RSS reader back to life too. Had the exact same experience others have described here: it's not worth the time investing anymore at some point...

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