New Project in Android Studio

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Overview

Do's and Dont's

  • To support as many devices as possible, you should set Minimum Required SDK to the lowest version available that allows your app to provide its core feature set.
  • You should test your app on the new version and update this value to match the latest API level in order to take advantage of new platform features. So you should set Target SDK to the latest API level.

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