Flurry not building on Android with SDK v16

Solar2D Android
#1

I installed the Flurry plugin [com.flurry.android:analytics:14.0.0] and got an error about minimum SDK ver. so I set my android build settings to minSdkVersion = “16” This allowed me to get a build without error, but will this be an issue?

C:\Users\desktop\AppData\Local\Temp\Corona Labs\CLtmpa97912\template\app\src\main\AndroidManifest.xml Error:
13:25:38.450 uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 15 cannot be smaller than version 16 declared in library [com.flurry.android:analytics:14.0.0] C:\Users\desktop.gradle\caches\transforms-3\edf0a076ef5e6c4fdc75697760b53079\transformed\jetified-analytics-14.0.0\AndroidManifest.xml as the library might be using APIs not available in 15
13:25:38.450 Suggestion: use a compatible library with a minSdk of at most 15,
13:25:38.450 or increase this project’s minSdk version to at least 16,
13:25:38.450 or use tools:overrideLibrary=“com.flurry.android.analytics.sdk” to force usage (may lead to runtime failures)
*13:25:38.450 *
13:25:38.450 FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
*13:25:38.450 *
13:25:38.450 * What went wrong:
13:25:38.450 Execution failed for task ‘:App:processReleaseMainManifest’.
13:25:38.450 > Manifest merger failed : uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 15 cannot be smaller than version 16 declared in library [com.flurry.android:analytics:14.0.0] C:\Users\desktop.gradle\caches\transforms-3\edf0a076ef5e6c4fdc75697760b53079\transformed\jetified-analytics-14.0.0\AndroidManifest.xml as the library might be using APIs not available in 15
13:25:38.450 Suggestion: use a compatible library with a minSdk of at most 15,
13:25:38.450 or increase this project’s minSdk version to at least 16,
13:25:38.450 or use tools:overrideLibrary=“com.flurry.android.analytics.sdk” to force usage (may lead to runtime failures)

#2

As plugins are updated, they may start using some newer Android API, which means they stop working on old Android versions. This is how it’s always been and will always be, so there’s no issue.

Android version 15 is over 11 years old. I doubt you will lose many users by increasing the minimum Android version of your app from an over 11 year OS version to an almost 11 year old OS version. When you update your app, any user running Android 15 or lower just won’t have access to the new update(s) from the store.