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I developed an application and I put it on Google Play, but the thing is that sometimes, some people fail to install it and i don’t know the reason.
However, i’m not sure if the reason is because my minSdkVersion is set to “8”.
I’m using Android 2.2 API.
Is it ok to set the minSdkVersion = “1” ? and what are the disadvantages of putting it as “1” instead of “8”. How should I choose it? That makes me confused because in the same time I want everyone to install my app.
There is very little benefit from using API 1 as the minimum SDK. Check out Android’s Dashboard of active devices. It shows that 3.1% of users still have API 7 or below, 0.4% for API 6 below.
You will also find great difficulty, if it is even possible, to recreate many of the modern features in API 1… even the Support Library only works on API 4+.
In short, it is unlikely that your minimum SDK version is the culprit.