Strange SDK values for the F-Droid Privileged Extension
F-Droid Forum [Unofficial]
April 18, 2026
I know full well that this is completely unsuitable for Android 12+ devices—just tell iodé that. I don’t use F-Droid at all; I use Obtainium instead. But none of that changes the fact that the SDKs are set up backwards (the SDKs don’t change; they’re specified in the app’s manifest; the minimum SDK is set to Android 16, which is higher than the target SDK), meaning that on devices running Android 16 or lower, you can only update the app via root (which the privileged extension naturally has) or ADB, which doesn’t seem very logical to me.
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