Google Could Soon End Chrome Support on Android Jelly Bean Devices

Google is planning to drib support for Chrome on devices running Android Jelly Edible bean. A commit spotted in the lawmaking of Chrome for Android suggests that Chrome will no longer get updates on devices running any build of Android Jelly Edible bean, which includes Android 4.i, 4.1 and iv.3.

A report from XDA-Developers states that the minimum API level required to run Chrome on an Android device will soon be raised to Android 4.4 KitKat, which means the browser won't become any more than updates on devices running older Android builds. As for the commit itself, it reads: 'Past default, only Android KitKat and to a higher place is supported'.

Still, it is not clear when the minimum API level for Chrome will be updated to Android 4.four KitKat and support for the browser volition exist dropped for Android Jelly Bean-running devices. Merely the move would surely have some touch on because in that location equally all the same millions of devices out there which run Android Jelly Bean.

As per the latest Android Distribution Report for September, all three builds of Android Jelly Bean accounted for merely three.2% of devices running Google's OS which visited the Play Shop in the vii-day menses during which the data was nerveless. There are well over 2.3 billion devices using Android, so ending Chrome support for Jelly Bean would impact over 60 million Android devices.

Jelly Bean was announced six years agone, so one would assume that many of these devices volition not be updated to newer versions of Android, and volition be left with a slightly less secure version of Chrome. At the aforementioned time, Google has a lot more device usage data to base their conclusion on, and it could very well be that Chrome use on these devices is next to negligible.

Source: https://beebom.com/google-to-soon-end-chrome-support-on-android-jelly-bean-devices/

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