Updating Brave on Android 8.1

Browser Support Mobile Support
,
1

Troubleshooting technical issues is much easier when both the user and support agent practice clear communication. For this reason, we have provided the template below for you to fill out with information about your issue. Please provide as much detail as possible so we can most efficiently resolve your problem.

Description of the issue:
Any version above my current installed version is supposedly available to install for Android 9.0 and up only.
How can this issue be reproduced?

1.Download the latest version from APKMirror, etc.
2.Try to install
3.N/A

Expected result:
Brave updates successfully
Brave Version (check About Brave):
1.64.122 - Latest version available for my Android version
Mobile Device details
Generic Android 8.1 device, with no support for Google Play
Additional Information:
Can I just update it by lowering the SDK version in an APK editor? do I need to uninstall it and install the armabi-7a? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

2

@Halbour I may be misunderstanding your question, but the answer is Android 8 and older is no longer supported. As such you can’t do any updates beyond whatever the last working version had been (I forget which version, would have to look through notes).

As you mentioned, you can find APK by looking through the Changelog at https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/master/CHANGELOG_ANDROID.md and navigating to the version that works. At that point they would have the APK that could be downloaded. Such as if you needed 1.64.11 it would be https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.65.122 where you’d find the appropriate file that works for you.

3

Turns out, downloading the BraveMonoarm.apk from the latest stable release is OK, and it installed just fine. I guess It’s solved!