Ionic 5 and Capacitor target android 4.4 (API 19)

Question

I have created an app with ionic5 and capacitor. I'm jutst able to install it in Androids with APIs equal or bigger than 21. Is it possible to some how install it in Android 4.4 ?

I googled and found out that if it was created with Cordova, it was possible to make some changes in config.xml. But couldn't find something about Capacitor. Also I found this article about converting Cordova app to capacitor and in it is mentioned that in case I convert Cordova to Cpacitor, I can make some changes in capacitor.config.js file somethign like this:

// capacitor.config.json
{
  "cordova": {
    "preferences": {
      "ScrollEnabled": "false",
      "android-minSdkVersion": "19",
   }
}

I tried that but again I was not able to install my app in Android 4.4 and got this error: INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK

I like to know is it possible to achieve this goal with Capacitor or it just work in Corcova? If it just works in Crdova, can I change my app from Capacitor to Cordova? I think it is necessarily to have asolution for that because around 4% of Android users, use Android 4.4 which is not less.

Answer 1

No, it's not possible, Capacitor only supports Android 5+ (API 21+)