fix(android): require minSdk 26 for ML Kit Entity Extraction (#5)

com.google.mlkit:entity-extraction:16.0.0-beta6 declares minSdk 26, so any app at
minSdk 24 fails the Android manifest merge — the library was never installable at
its documented floor of 24. Bump the declared minSdkVersion fallback to 26 and
update the README requirement. Also configure the example app to build at minSdk 26
via expo-build-properties.

Author: pablogdcr

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- Corrected the minimum Android SDK to **API 26**. ML Kit Entity Extraction
+  (`entity-extraction:16.0.0-beta6`) declares `minSdk 26`, so apps at `minSdk 24`
+  failed to build (manifest merge). The library's declared `minSdkVersion` and the
+  README requirement are now `26`.
 - iOS: return UTF-16 offsets from `NSDataDetector` instead of grapheme-cluster
   distances, so `start`/`end` align with JavaScript string indices and Android's
   ML Kit char offsets. Previously mismatched on text containing emoji, accented,

README.md

@@ -213,7 +213,9 @@ Each language is a separate ~5.6MB on-device model, downloaded on demand.
 ## Requirements
 
 - iOS 15.1+
-- Android API 24+ (minSdk)
+- Android API 26+ (minSdk) — required by ML Kit Entity Extraction. Set
+  `minSdkVersion = 26` (or higher) in your app; with Expo, use
+  [`expo-build-properties`](https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/build-properties/).
 - Expo SDK 50+ or bare React Native with `expo-modules-core`
 
 ## Contributing

android/build.gradle

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ android {
   compileSdkVersion safeExtGet("compileSdkVersion", 34)
 
   defaultConfig {
-    minSdkVersion safeExtGet("minSdkVersion", 24)
+    // ML Kit Entity Extraction (com.google.mlkit:entity-extraction) requires minSdk 26.
+    minSdkVersion safeExtGet("minSdkVersion", 26)
     targetSdkVersion safeExtGet("targetSdkVersion", 34)
   }
 

example/app.json

@@ -26,6 +26,16 @@
     },
     "web": {
       "favicon": "./assets/favicon.png"
-    }
+    },
+    "plugins": [
+      [
+        "expo-build-properties",
+        {
+          "android": {
+            "minSdkVersion": 26
+          }
+        }
+      ]
+    ]
   }
 }

example/package.json

@@ -9,11 +9,12 @@
     "web": "expo start --web"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "react-native-data-detector": "file:..",
     "expo": "~54.0.33",
+    "expo-build-properties": "~1.0.10",
     "expo-status-bar": "~3.0.9",
     "react": "19.1.0",
-    "react-native": "0.81.5"
+    "react-native": "0.81.5",
+    "react-native-data-detector": "file:.."
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/react": "~19.1.0",