How to Migrate Xamarin.Android Projects whose min-sdk is 19?

[CarlosACepeda]

Type of issue

Missing information

Description

So, I was trying to follow the tutorial to migrate my app to .NET Maui from a Xamarin.Android app
but to my surprise apparently Android KitKat isn't supported, and this API Level is being used by an important chunk of devices that are using my app,
so, I guess in the documentation this should be mentioned or providing an alternative solution for this case,
thank you!
and I'm trapped because I wanted to give support to API Level 34 but my Xamarin.Android project doesn't allow it, it only allows it to API Level 33
What would be the options for this case?

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/migration/native-projects?view=net-maui-8.0

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/docs-maui/blob/main/docs/migration/native-projects.md

Document Version Independent Id

56709a6f-c958-f4ce-1c74-65e20b384611

Article author

@davidbritch

Metadata

• ID: 56709a6f-c958-f4ce-1c74-65e20b384611
• Service: dotnet-mobile
• Sub-service: dotnet-maui

[davidbritch]

The .NET for Android minimum version is Android 5.0 (API 21).

For targeting API 34 features, that shipped a while ago for .NET for Android (https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/releases/tag/34.0.95) so file a bug report if you're having issues there.

Remaining with Xamarin.Android, while unsupported, you can continue to target API 19 and build with API 34 in order to be Play Store compliant. New features in API 34 may not be part of that SDK binding (hence you need to use .NET for Android instead). See the support policy at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/support/policy/xamarin

[CarlosACepeda]

Thank you, I will try to give support using Xamarin Android for the time being, but as for the document, I really think this should be mentioned, to avoid following a tutorial that will fail in cases like mine! that probably I'm not the first or last one that will come across this issue!