On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Brill Pappin <br...@pappin.ca> wrote:
> Really what I'm concerned about is having to build with a future version of > the UI and having my 2.1 users excluded. > Since Eclipse validates the XML, I've had a few problems adding elements > for for 2.2 in a 2.1 build. > You should build against the version of the SDK with the features you are using; if you want to run on older versions of the platform put android:minSdkVersion="<vers>" in your manifest and of course test that you actually work on that version. > I still want the 2.2 elements for those using it, but it needs to fail > gracefully so that users still on 2.1 just ignore the tags. > Can you point to a specific problem? I don't know of any situation where an older version of the platform choked on tags (or attributes) from a newer one. > At the moment, the XML schema's won't allow you to do that. If the new > manifest elements don't fall back (if the schema's are not updated to allow > the new elements) its going to make developing in anything but the most > recent SDK impossible. > Sorry, I don't really follow what you are saying here. Lots and lots of apps build against newer versions of the platform to use the features there, but support running on older versions. This is pretty easy to do. *Especially* for things like XML attributes and tags in the manifest, since older versions won't even be aware of them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
