Android 2.3 Gingerbread to be banished from new Play Services variants

Google reported that Play Services 10.0.x will be the last discharge to bolster the obsolete rendition of Android, going back to February 2011.

As indicated by the most recent numbers, 1.3% of all Androids still run Gingerbread. The following rendition of Play Services (v10.2, coming in mid 2017) will require Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich as least (this likewise implies Honeycomb is getting the hatchet, however couple of gadgets ever ran that tablet-centered Android form).

This ought to minimally affect the what applications are accessible for such old gadgets, they will simply be cut off from new elements added to the Play Services. Devs can keep on making Gingerbread applications… not that there's much motivation to do as such.

Anyway, Google says that expostulating these old APIs will help it "give a more hearty gathering of devices for Android engineers with more noteworthy speed." And that is useful for 99% of Android clients. Incidentally, Ice Cream Sandwich (propelled an indistinguishable year from Gingerbread) additionally has a 1.3% share, we think about to what extent it will be before it gets cut as well

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