Supporting a full decade of Android releases on our 3.12.x branch is tricky!


## Version 3.12.9

_2020-02-24_

 *  Fix: Don't crash on Android 11 due to use of restricted methods. This prevents a crash with the
    exception, "Expected Android API level 21+ but was 29".


## Version 3.12.8

_2020-01-11_

 * They don't specify whether a specific proxy server should be used or how to authenticate with that proxy server....

   * the Android flavor of Guava). The field is declared with a type of {@code Object} to avoid
   * compatibility problems on Android VMs. The corresponding accessor method, however, can have the
   * more specific return type as long as users are careful to guard calls to it with version checks
   * or reflection: Android VMs ignore the types of elements that aren't used.

gradlePlugin {
    plugins {
        register("androidStudioProvisioning") {
            id = "gradlebuild.android-studio-provisioning"
            implementationClass = "gradlebuild.integrationtests.ide.AndroidStudioProvisioningPlugin"
        }
    }

    plugins {
        register("androidHomeWarmup") {
            id = "gradlebuild.android-home-warmup"

def create_android_sdk_rule(environ_cp):
  """Set Android variables and write Android SDK WORKSPACE rule."""
  if is_windows() or is_cygwin():
    default_sdk_path = cygpath('%s/Android/Sdk' % environ_cp['APPDATA'])
  elif is_macos():
    default_sdk_path = '%s/library/Android/Sdk' % environ_cp['HOME']
  else:
    default_sdk_path = '%s/Android/Sdk' % environ_cp['HOME']

  def valid_sdk_path(path):

   * currently skipping MediumTests on Android, and we skip them by not making them present at
   * runtime at all. I could just make _this_ test a MediumTest, but then it wouldn't run on
   * Android.... The right long-term fix is probably to get MediumTests running under Android by
   * default and then suppress them strategically as needed.
   */

<resources>
  <string name="app_name">android-test</string>

# Module okhttp

    return typeVariable;
  }

  /**
   * Invocation handler to work around a compatibility problem between Android and Java.
   *
   * <p>Java 8 introduced a new method {@code getAnnotatedBounds()} in the {@link TypeVariable}
   * interface, whose return type {@code AnnotatedType[]} is also new in Java 8. As of 2025, Android
   * has not added {@link AnnotatedType}. That means that we cannot implement that interface in

| ------- | ------------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| 5.x     | ✅                  | APIs subject to change in alpha releases.    |
| 4.x     | ✅                  | Android 5.0+ (API level 21+) and on Java 8+. |
| 3.x     | ❌ Ended 2021-12-31 | Android 2.3+ (API level 9+) and Java 7+.     |


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