Google has announced it will no longer update Google Play Services for Android 4.x Ice Cream Sandwich.
Google says the active device count for Ice Cream Sandwich is below 1% of all users and has been for some time. The company will deprecate support for the seven-year-old platform in future updates to Google Play Services.
Google Play Services is a core functionality of Android and is used to update Google apps and apps from Google Play. This means that any Ice Cream Sandwich-based devices still in use will no longer be able to update the installed apps. This move effectively ends Google’s support for the platform.
Google says developers should adjust their code accordingly and target API level 16 and up.
