Google Play services discontinuing updates for Jelly Bean (API levels 16, 17 & 18) Posted by Vikas Kansal, Product Manager, Google Play services The Android Jelly Bean (JB) platform was first released 9 years ago and as of July 2021, the active device count is below 1%. Since then Android has released a lot of improvements and features which are not all backported to Jelly Bean. This results in in