Disable An Apk For Certain Android Versions Through Google Play Console

I have an app that can switch airplane mode on and off on schedule. Or, rather, it could, until Android 4.2 came along, and this setting became unavailable. My app does not have an

Solution 1:

Like it says here, and in the question you linked to, setting the maxSdkVersion does filter it in Google Play, so it won't be seen by devices above that level. That's the only place that checks it, though. Side-loading will still be possible.

The only real problem you'll run into is with people upgrading their OS. If they downloaded it from Play with 4.1, and later upgrade to 4.2, the app won't work correctly.

For those users(and side-loaders), you may want to do a version check on startup. If they fail the check, gracefully tell them what happened in a dialog, etc. Much better than an invisible "it doesn't work anymore!"