Android's consumer face uses version numbers to represent progress, but for developers there is something called an "API level" (sometimes called the "SDK version"). This is a version number of ...

Talking of the latest update to Android (Version 5.1 of Lollipop rolls out)… Google has just officially announced the 5.1 SDK, which now represents API Level 22, to enable development and testing of ...

On Monday, Android 12L exited beta and launched as the new stable build of Android, with some version strings calling ... Given the new API level and tablet changes, we can understand why 12L ...

In contrast, OpenGL is an older, higher-level API that abstracts ... to update to newer Android versions. This is important because it means that robust Vulkan API support will only get better ...

The table is shown when developers create a new project in Android Studio and determine which API version to target. The October 2018 report provides a good analog to compare adoption rates for a ...