Google Play services will drop Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb support 'in early 2017'

Google today announced that Google Play services 10.0.0 and Firebase 10.0.0 client libraries for Android will be the last versions to support Android API level 9 through API level 13. The next version of these libraries (10.2.0), slated for release “in early 2017,” will increase the minimum supported API level to 14, meaning Android 4.0 […]