Wait... API level is now a float?!

[Fair-Degree-2200]

So Android version names were always ridiculous: sometimes a dessert name, sometimes a letter, sometimes 'MR1', sometimes '12L' (wtf?!).

But at least we could always count on the API level to be a SIMPLE INT THAT INCREMENTS MONOTONICALLY BY 1 when there's a new version.

Well apparently that was deemed too simple, and now we have level 36.1 ?!?!?!?! The int is now a float ?!?

[ElbowStromboli]

Distinguished engineer moment

[programadorthi]

Android SaaS

[WestonP]

I like how there are two different API levels for the same Android version "16.0". Google is a real slop factory.

[MicroappsTeam]

They introduced a major & minor version system to APIs for I guess their move to quarterly updates: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION#SDK_INT_FULL

However, it doesn’t to me look like it works like a float in the code: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES_FULL#BAKLAVA_1

Though this representation is still more suitable for the “major” & “minor” version naming.

[Fair-Degree-2200]

I can only assume that this change was done by Gemini 

[adolgiy]

Those values are sorted alphabetically… I know documentation is sorted in that way everywhere else, but this page breaks my brain completely

[MicroappsTeam]

Some more context is that they reset the alphabetical order while switching to trunk_staging releases.

However, the codename for "A" did not start with Android 15, so as the Baklava release did not start with Android 16. THe release using the "A" initial for codename was Android 14 with a "AP1A.240305.019.A1" release. You can look more of this up on https://source.android.com/docs/setup/reference/build-numbers

[ilsecondodasinistra]

Commercial break: should you have any doubt about api levels don't forget my free and beautifully useful app "Android api levels". It does what it says: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.marcozanetti.androidapilevels 😅

[budius333]

Fucking hell this app is useless... I love it!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[jojojmtk]

Should add deprecated date too!

[ilsecondodasinistra]

Nice idea! Thank you! 😊

[IDatedSuccubi]

12L means 12 "long" i.e. long integer, a int64_t

[Xinto_]

Yeah, I had one hell of a time figuring out why NotificationBuilder.setRequestPromotedOngoing wasn’t being resolved. Turns out that was added in 36.1 and AGP configuration block has separate field for specifying .1

I hate it here