Drop support for Android 5.0/5.1 #12567
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Feature description
It has been announced that the Jetpack libraries will drop support for Android versions below 6.0 starting in June 2025. I believe it'd be a good idea to do likewise at some point (perhaps in the refactor branch for now?).
Why do you want this feature?
Dropping support for Android versions below 6.0 would allow newer versions of the Jetpack libraries, including Compose, to be used. At the moment, the ones that have dropped support are still in alpha, so this change won't be needed very soon, and a release of the refactored app could be done before dropping support entirely.
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