Play Store app upgrade requirement

[Raphael Awoseyin]

I have just received a notice from Google that my app must be upgraded to target Android 15 (API 35) and use  Google Play Billing Library version 7.0.0 or later. Deadline is 31-August-2025.

How soon can we have the DS version to enable us meet these requirements? Or is the required DS version already available?

[Alan Hendry]

Hi,

On Discord it was suggested that build.json can handle it

{
  "manifest": {
    "minSdkVersion": 23,
    "targetSdkVersion": 35
  }
}

Regards, ah

[Raphael Awoseyin]

And where do I save the build.json file? Can I create it with the DS editor? 

[Cemal]

Yes, open your project and create a file called build.json.

[Raphael Awoseyin]

Done it and successfully uploaded the app to Play Store. Many thanks!

[FrickelPit]

Be careful with targetSDK 35 in build.json. I got problems with that solution and described them in this post. It shows that parts of the screen are missing in app built from apk with targetSDK = 35.

Regards Peter 

[Dave]

Hi Guys,

We will soon release a new version of DS and APKBuilder that internally targets (and builds with) SDK 35, this will be a more reliable solution than just changing the target in the build.json file.

We are very close to a release of the latest beta, we just need to sort a few Android 15 issues out first.

Thanks for your patience