Legacy Android smartphones and tablets will soon stop receiving updates to the Google Play Services library, which is required for the Google Play store and dozens of APIs. We are talking about the 2012 Jelly Bean release, distributed in three successive versions with indices 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 (API levels 16, 17 and 18). Jelly Bean currently has less than 1% of active users.
According to a post from the official Android Developers blog, Google Play Services update 21.30.99 will be the last update for Jelly Bean devices. It is scheduled for the end of August 2021, the current version of the application is 21.24.18. After that, support through enhancements and the addition of new features will finally end.
Developers using the Google Play Services SDK are now encouraged to use API 19 (applies to Android 4.4 KitKat) as the minimum API level supported. If there is a desire to provide Jelly Bean users with support in the future, then Google recommends that developers compile several APKs of their application with separate versions of Google Play Services – running on Jelly Bean.
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