Ush 1299 - Upgrade to Capacitor 6 (Android 14) #1184
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Issue:
The google play store requires a minimum SDK version of 34 (Android 14) from August 31.
Solution:
To achieve this minimum, we have to upgrade Capacitor to version 6. Also, Android 14 does not require the camera to check for permissions before use (and Capacitor/Camera currently has a bug where this blocks app execution ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#2140)
Testing:
As this is a major upgrade of dependencies, both builds of the app will need to be tested (iOS and Android) across all functionality with special focus on native functions: