California: Technology company Google is ending Play Services support for Android 4.4 KitKat from next month (August).
This version of Android was introduced in October 2013. According to Google, less than 1 percent of active devices use the KitKat version.
Therefore, the company will no longer support KitKat in future Google Play Services updates. Play Services is ending support specifically for API levels 19 and 20.
API 20 was exclusively reserved for early releases of Android ware. The last time Google released Android Jelly Bean 4.3-4 in 2021.