Android end of life alarm sounded at the AV User Group
Android end of life alarm sounded at the AV User Group
Publish Date: 2026-05-13 09:32:00
Source Domain: www.avinteractive.com
How are other end users dealing with Android end of life? This was the first of three significant questions posed in a discussion session held by the AV User Group’s London chapter at the British Medical Association’s headquarters last week.
The question was timely as Google ended security support for Android 13 in March, posing potential security risks for devices running this version which are connected to corporate networks.
Android end of life is also an issue for Microsoft Teams Rooms based on Android 13, which face a certification end date of 15 August 2028, with full support ending on 15 August 2030.
One AV User Group member complained that vendors were secretive about how they were affected by this issue. “They know that some of their products are coming end of life but they’re not telling us as the end user who is looking to buy their products,” he said.
The concern was about products that would reach end of life in two years’ time when end users were looking for life cycles of up to five years. “If you are running MTR on Android, you need to be aware of this,” he said.
In addition to the general concern about Android end of life, there was a worry about possible end of life constraints on products from a vendor which has not yet signed up to Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP).
However, another end user cautioned that MDEP was not necessarily an easy answer to the worries raised, as there were not yet that many MDEP products in the market. In addition, MDEP wasn’t plug and play, as you couldn’t necessarily use your existing choice of camera with the MDEP product his organisation was trialling, as the peripherals chosen needed to be ones that there were drivers for.
For the second major question of the discussion session, attention shifted from Teams Rooms on Android to BYOD, perhaps appropriately given its recent revival in popularity.
One end user was looking for, and received, screensharing and BYOD advice in two scenarios: one…
