When you do NOT publish your #android #app in the Play Store (e.g. #gadgetbridge, #fdroidapp , #imagepipe), is there a good reason to increase the #targetSdk ?
Does it matter at all?
The last sdk updates mainly impose restrictions without much benefit for developers and make development harder.
Why upgrade targetSdk when you can completely ignore G***le's rules about minimum targetSdk?
What are your thoughts?
@Billie For apps that don't have features broken by #targetSdkVersion, you might as well up it. If your app is in a memory safe language e.g. Java, Kotlin then the targetSdkVersion does not help you much while restricting features. If the app uses C/native code and you don't want to think too much about security vulns, then upping it could help you. My understanding is that #Google thinks of it as a way to protect private data from unknown apps, so they don't have to review uploads to Play.
