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mattdermody
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16 days ago

FYI - Chrome is dropping support for A8 and A9 in August 2025

138 will be the last version of Chrome that will support both A8 and A9 according to this recent announcement.

 

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/352616098/sunsetting-chrome-support-for-android-8-0-oreo-and-android-9-0-pie?hl=en

 

There are very small populations of these devices left in the wild but I personally still support quite a number of them. The entire Atlas family from Zebra including the TC51, MC3300, and VC80x devices all max out on A8 with no higher upgrades available. This likely will lead to forced upgrades to those devices, especially given how many modern apps are hybrid web apps dependent on the WebView and/or Chrome (Chrome is the System WebView implementation on A8). 

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  • Lizzie's avatar
    Lizzie
    Google Community Manager
    15 days ago

    Great to see this highlighted here, thanks for sharing mattdermody​ - even if this helps a small number of customers to prepare ahead of August, this is awesome. Thank you