Mishaal Rahman rant: Google Play's warning that users can't download certain apps because they're "made for an older version of Android" has issues.

Not gonna like, this has me a little apprehensive due to the fact that my preferred keyboard hasn't updated in years. You know what would be good, if apps that didn't update in 5+ years were automatically open sourced.

If you're a hacker, please update Minuum Keyboard.

I will copy a comment I made a week ago in another thread:

It was five years after her first Android phone that I noticed that when asked to install an app, my aunt proceeded to download an APK from a random website and installed that rather than using the Play Store. In fact, I think she didn't even know the Play Store was a thing, and she was on her third android phone already.

She isn't tech-savvy, she did that because that is how she did on Windows. After that, I just accepted that things need to change in a way that might annoy me.

That is to say that while the solution found by Google has a bunch of drawbacks, and I'd prefer if old games and unmaintained apps were left alone, I don't think it was a totally wrong decision (this time).

I asked for extensions but it's pretty annoying to have to dust off my older published apps (which work just fine) and port to API 34. One down, three to go