Backwards compatibility is a double-edged sword. It's cool that you can run an apk from 10 years ago but there should be a point where you say that's enough and drop support from them. Looking at Windows.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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I learned the other day that thats the reason you cannot make a folder named CON on windows. Dates back to pre DOS era.
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This just isn't true; Android absolutely has version limits.
The Google play store has version limits. A sideloaded app will almost always work
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Just installed the original flappy bird last week on my A54 and it's working great.
The original flappy bird doesn't exist in the playstores anymore since 2014. How could you install it?
APK Mirror that's what I usually use for apps that are gone from the play store, like Stranger Things: 1984, and Kung Fury games.
The only time I "pirate"
Probably found the apk somewhere online.
Ohh i remember. Didnt the dev decide that he wasnt gonna support their users becoming addicted or sth?
Iirc the 2nd place flappy bird world champion killed the 1st place flappy bird world champion because he was mad at him for being better.
Yeah Android CAN run the app if you have the APK. But also the play store won't let you if the dev hasn't updated the app in a couple of years. Older games are especially bad.
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most of the time? yes.
some apps do actually break with newer android versions though. It's gotten a little better and happened less often after the big step to Android 4 (okay… that is itself more than 10 years ago)
but it can and does still happen sometimes
Android and iOS are both abysmal.
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