What AIR for android version should I choose to publish Flash game on Google play store ?

My team and I are almost done whith our mobile game development using Flash professional CS6.
We wonder what version of AIR for Android we should publish for as a target (in publish settings)???
because we will publish it on play store and we want it to be compatible with largest number of android phones.
knowing that users have different versions of AIRs, different Flash Players and different OS versions on their phones.
and are there any useful points we should take into consideration when publshing flash game on play store??
thanks,
Abeer

The current version of AIR (version 13) is still compatible with the same set of Android devices as version 3 was, and there no doubt have been a lot of things fixed over the last two years. So, just use AIR 13. It’s currently compatible with over 4000 devices, which should be enough I think!

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