# QField for Android 5 | QField - Efficient field work built for QGIS

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**Created:** [22 June 2026 00:22 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/qfield-for-android-5-qfield-efficient-field-work-built-for-qgis/1735 "2026-06-22T00:22:22Z")\
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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](https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html) ) 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](https://github.com/opengisch/QField/issues/6) , 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)&nbsp;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:

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://qfield.org/blog/2015/12/01/qfield-for-android-5/](https://qfield.org/blog/2015/12/01/qfield-for-android-5/)