Is the upgrade to SDK #26 necessary on WearOS ?

Greetings, I own some older WearOS based smartwatches.

Is the switch to SDK 26 necessary or could you still get everything to work with SDK 25?

I have a Huawei Watch gen 1 codename sturgeon, two Moto360 gen 2 codename carp/smelt, a ASUS ZenWatch 2 codename wren/sparrow and a special watch named LG Watch W7 is on the wishlist.

All of my and many other watches based on eg the Snapdragon wear 400 are incompatible with the latest 2022.8.0 update since they only run Android 7.1.1

I would love if you all could still support these great bang for the buck smartwatches

I consider this more as a feature request then a bug report

Have a nice day 👋🇩🇪

root@test:~# adb push home-assistant-wear-2022.8.0.apk /sdcard/app.apk && adb shell pm install /sdcard/app.apk
AsteroidOS/home-assistant-wear-2022.8.0.apk: 1 file pushed. 3.7 MB/s (14874341 bytes in 3.793s)
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK: Failed parse during installPackageLI: /data/app/vmdl827038902.tmp/base.apk (at Binary XML file line #7): Requires newer sdk version #26 (current version is #25)]

[dshokouhi]

You could just use older versions of the app, they will still work. If you want to enjoy new features then you’ll need to upgrade the device. It does not make sense to support multiple versions of the app. The app is open source so you can always modify a fork if you want.

[backcountrymountains]

Thanks!