Version 12.5.0¶
- Release Date
September, 5th 2025
- Compatibility
Android 13.0 (Tiramisu), Android 14.0 (Upside Down Cake), Android 15.0 (Vanilla Ice Cream), Android 16.0 (Baklava)
This release complies with the latest policy from the Play Store and fixes a wrong Dutch translation.
What’s New¶
Google has issued a new policy for apps submitted to the Play Store:
Starting August 31 2025, app updates must target Android 15 (API level 35) or higher to be submitted to Google Play. Furthermore, existing apps (such as our LionsBase mobile app) must target Android 14 (API level 34) or higher to remain available to new users on devices running Android OS higher than your app’s target API level.
As you see, there is a difference between the compatibility of the app with a given version of Android and the target API level. The compatibility indicates the minimum version of Android that is required to run the app. The target API level indicates the version of Android that the app was developed for. The app may run on later versions of Android, but it may not take advantage of the latest features of the Android OS.
Every new Android version introduces changes that enhance the user experience, security, and performance of the Android platform overall.
To provide Android and Google Play users with a safe experience, Google Play now requires all apps to meet some target API level requirements:
To comply with this new policy, we have updated the target API level of the LionsBase mobile app to API level 35 (Android 15) in two steps:
In version 12.0, we updated the target API level from 33 to 34 thanks to the migration to .NET MAUI. Unfortunately, we faced some issues we could not resolve at that time, so we had to delay the update to API level 35 to a later release.
In this release, we have updated the target API level to 35 (Android 15) with the switch from .NET v8 to .NET v9, after we verified that all libraries and controls used in the application were compatible with .NET v9 and we found solutions for the issues we faced until now.
This update does not introduce any new features or changes to the user interface. The application remains fully compatible with Android 5.1 and later versions, and it continues to work as expected on all supported devices.
Other Changes¶
In addition, a few bugs have been squashed and minor enhancements integrated:
a Dutch translation has been corrected;
various internal libraries have been upgraded.
Note
From a technical standpoint, this version of the LionsBase mobile application is supposed to be compatible with Android 5.1 (Lollipop) and later. However Google has officially ended security patch support for Android 12 and Android 12L as of March 31, 2025, meaning these operating systems no longer receive core security updates. Since we cannot support insecure operating systems, we strongly recommend you to use Android 13 or later. We cannot guarantee that the application will work properly on Android 5.1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. If it does, it is purely by chance and we will not provide any support for these versions of Android.
Note
Using iOS? Please see corresponding release notes.