Does Google still support SL4A for Android?

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Does Google still support SL4A for Android.

I have created an apk file for SL4A which is A6 using the old source code, could anyone kindly let me know if the source code for SL4A is available for the latest Android version(A16>).

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Google never actually supported SL4A. The original developer, Damon Kohler, worked at Google, but SL4A was his own project.

I got the impression that Google weren't thrilled about SL4A on Android, for security, stability and performance reasons, but had no problem with Kohler working on it independently. I'm reading between the lines here though, so could be wrong.

The latest version of SL4A should work on more recent Android versions; you just wont have support for new Android API features.

There was at least one other lead maintainer after Kohler, but development was intermittent for a long time, and ground to a complete halt years ago. I know that they struggled to find Java developers that cared about Python on Android.

The SL4A Google Group still exists. You may still find some support there.