On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:43:16 AM UTC, Robert Massaioli wrote:
everything below v7 of the SDK is only about ten percent of the market which
I think means that app developers will ditch those platforms in the future.
(If not right now)
I don't know about you, but I'm disinclined to
Actually I made that comment a little flippantly; 10% still translates to a
whole bunch of users when you are talking about an OS like Android. I have
changed my mind and I will suffer a little bit of that
Backwards Compatibility pain in order to cater for every user.
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Use reflection or check the build version to determine if you can use newer
APIs.
If I simply update the application with a new min SDK version, will
1.5 and 1.6 users be prompted to uninstall? Or will they just not see
the update?
I assume they will not see the update. There's no
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Robert Massaioli robertmassai...@gmail.com
wrote:
Just out of interest though does anybody know what would happen if you just
did this anyway? What happens when you bump the min SDK version up?
AFAIK, your app disappears from the Market for those people that
Thanks for the response. That makes sense, in that case I was considering
releasing my app so that it supported version 3 of the SDK because that
would be easy to do, however I really want the android.accounts package so
maybe I will just make the min SDK level be 5 and ignore those on old
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Robert Massaioli robertmassai...@gmail.com
wrote:
They only make up a really small segment of the market anyway:
http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html
That says 3.0%. The new Developer Console stats say 5.1%. Personally, I
Well that is annoying, cannot even trust the statistics pages. Now I
actually have to debate what to do. Not as fun as I was planning. Ah well, I
guess that is the price that people pay for newer and better versions of
Android. Though Google really needs to get ontop of those statistics then; I
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Robert Massaioli robertmassai...@gmail.com
wrote:
Actually...can you please post the statistics that the developer console
gives you for device distribution?
First value is from the console, second from the chart linked, blanks are
not available. 2.1 is the
Thankyou, these are really useful statistics though it is really confusing
that they tell different stories. However it does say that everything below
v7 of the SDK is only about ten percent of the market which I think means
that app developers will ditch those platforms in the future. (If not
I have a sizable install base already on some apps with Android 1.5
set as the minimum version. I want to update the apps to take
advantage of some of the newer features offered in Android 2.0 and
greater. What is the best way forward so I don't break things for my
current 1.5 and 1.6 users?
If
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Warren warrenba...@gmail.com wrote:
I want to update the apps to take advantage of some of the newer features
offered in Android 2.0 and greater. What is the best way forward so I don't
break things for my
current 1.5 and 1.6 users?
Use reflection or check
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