Today I started to get this annoying message (when installing APK outside the Google Play):
This app was built for an older version of Android and doesn't include the latest privacy protections
What is this message? What should we do?
I believe that it's because of the targetSdkVersion but can't find anything about it.
^^^^ UPDATE ^^^^
It turns out that when I changed targetSdkVersion from 24 to 26 - the message disappeared.
It seems that Google started to enforce using minimum targetSdkVersion of 26 for APK installed outside the Google Play Store.
So you'll have to updated your targetSdkVersion in the AndroidManifest.xml file in your project.
For those who are having this problem even after updating the targetSdk to the latest version, make sure your "compileSdk" is written correctly. I upgraded my Gradle and the "compileSdkVersion" was deprecated. After changing it to compileSdk, the pop-up stopped appearing.
Change
compileSdkVersion
To
compileSdk
I also had your problem To fix the problem, just put your target SDK on the latest version
for example
android {
namespace 'ir.galaxycell.kako'
compileSdk 33
buildFeatures{
dataBinding true
}
defaultConfig {
applicationId "ir.galaxycell.kako"
minSdk 21
targetSdk 33
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"
testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
}
For SDK 35, Must define the targetSdkVersion, like this
android {
defaultConfig {
compileSdk 35
}
defaultConfig {
minSdkVersion 22
targetSdkVersion 31
...}
