Jan "Jenkings" Škoda - blog

Here we go again! It's been a year since the last annoying notification about API support, and I've had to redo all the work.

Google is forcing me to update all my apps again. They only support two-year-old APIs, and if I don't upgrade my apps, I won't be able to send updates, and they will remove my apps from the store after some time.

It's really annoying. I have to go through all my apps, increase the target and build the API version. I also have to upgrade all the libraries to meet these conditions, fix all the conflicts, change all the removed functions and update all the deprecated functions to the new versions. Then I have to compile, test and deploy to Google Play, test again and send to the public.

This wouldn't be such a big problem if you only had one or two apps, but with a higher number, it becomes a week-long task.

And this process repeats year after year. I am asking... WHY, GOOGLE? I really hate having to spend my time on nothing, and this is an exact example of that issue. So please, don't do that to me!