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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by The_Snail to c/pixeldungeon
 

I just had to test the newest SPD 2.5.0b3 on the oldest Android device I have, and I am proud to say that it works great!

My old Zeki nearly went into the trash this month as nearly all support for 4x has ceased. Then I discovered XPlayer, a 3rd party app designed to run MKV movies in h265 format. Along with WiFi FTP I am able to stream quality movies on this old tablet.

Better still, I can now play one of the best roguelikes ever on it! Thank you 00-Evan for not writing off older hardware.

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[–] 00_Evan 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's great, I'm always happy to see Shattered still chugging along on these older devices.

It's not going to hit for a little while yet, but unfortunately it does look like support for Android 4.3- and then 4.4 may need to go in a future update, perhaps in 2025. The TL;DR is that Google is dropping support for the Dalvik runtime (which was replaced by ART in android 5) in most of their build tools, which means that a lot of code libraries are dropping support in their latest versions.

[–] Xillith_Arclight 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Any deadlines for 6.0 support?

[–] 00_Evan 3 points 2 months ago

Nope, it's difficult to know where things will be years in the future but atm it's only 4.4- that has any form of support deadline.

[–] The_Snail 4 points 2 months ago

If only I had a dollar for every good working app that Google has broken for no reason whatsoever other than the force people to upgrade I'd be a multi-millionaire.