# Kitkat deltachat

**URL:** <https://forum.delta.chat/t/kitkat-deltachat/769>\
**Category:** Feature Proposal\
**Created:** [January 31, 2020, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/kitkat-deltachat/769 "2020-01-31T07:24:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![enacting](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/enacting/32/512_2.png) [@enacting](https://forum.delta.chat/u/enacting)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/kitkat-deltachat/769/1 "2020-01-31T07:24:36Z")

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Please maintain a version of DC with core functionality for android 444 where “upgrade” to 5 is made impossible by both hardware and budget externalities.

It is understood that frills might be unavailable

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**Author:** ![r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/u/r10s)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/kitkat-deltachat/769/2 "2020-01-31T12:00:00Z")

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not sure what this post is about.

all Delta Chat versions ever released can be started on Android 4.4 (KitKat), the current release should run on Androids down to 4.3 and the upcoming release will probably lower the minimal requirements to 4.1 ([belonging pr](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/pull/1227)).

so, in fact, we’re taking care of Android 4, although it is quite some effort, see [https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/issues?utf8=✓&q=is%3Aissue+label%3Aandroid4](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+label%3Aandroid4) for some issued and things only done for Android 4.

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**Author:** ![link2xt](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/link2xt/32/1971_2.png) [@link2xt](https://forum.delta.chat/u/link2xt)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/kitkat-deltachat/769/3 "2025-10-24T20:50:53Z")

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Android 4 support got dropped, now Android 5.0 is the minimum supported versions. The reason is that Google now requires that target SDK is 34: [upgrade to api 34 by r10s · Pull Request #3171 · deltachat/deltachat-android · GitHub](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/pull/3171)

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**Author:** ![r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/u/r10s)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/kitkat-deltachat/769/4 "2026-02-12T12:11:28Z")

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