It’s done, finally we managed to get rid of Ministro so that we finally can say, QField runs on any android from 4.0.3 (ICS). This makes as of today (according to google ) 96% of the android installations worldwide. Eventually we want to settle to 4.3 (JB) as minimum to allow us using certain features and avoiding one known issue , but for now it would mean cutting of another 25% of the users. So as of today it is: 4.0.3 (Ice cream sandwich API 15) is the required minimal Android version to run QField and Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean API 18) is the suggested minimal version. We tested with 4.4, 5.0.1 and 5.1 but we haven’t had the chance to get our hands on an Android 6 so if you can, let us know how it works. But adding support for android 5 isn’t the only great news, during the process we also:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://qfield.org/blog/2015/12/01/qfield-for-android-5/