Modern Android libraries are starting to phase out support for Android 5 (API levels 21 to 22). This makes sense to me since Android 6 was released 10 years ago.
Since a lot of libraries are no longer supporting Android 5 it means that to keep dependencies updated, Summit can no longer support Android 5 either.
If this is a huge concern to any users of Summit please flag in the comments. Otherwise I will be removing support for these versions of Android in the next release.
Summit is backwards compatible by 11 versions.
Mlem is backwards compatible by 1 version.
It’s more common on iOS for apps to not be backwards compatible since devices get OS updates more frequently since Apple controls everything.
The problem on Android is you can buy a phone, get 1 major update and then be stuck on that version forever.