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Old 06-15-2018, 08:01 AM   #9
Lactobacillus
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Exclamation Lower the version needed by the apps..

App publishers all too often target the newest platform version without rhyme or reason.

There is a decision making process that favours doing this: They can upgrade their build environment and target most users, to which the response is to immediately proceed!

(The unheard counter-argument is that they could instead do nothing and target all users, but how many build architects would suggest that?)

If you have permission, you can convert APK/DEX to Java source code using a decompiler and then try compiling the Java for a different platform. The danger is that dependencies might have different interfaces and be potentially time consuming to fix, so this approach could become a really big project.
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