I was hoping to get a few responses from other developers stating what
their current policy is.

For me, yes, I want to ignore 1.5 from now on. I've had a lot of
hassles getting otherwise perfect functionality to work with 1.5 on
certain devices, particularly to do with the soft keyboard, views, and
back buttons.

On Nov 9, 11:23 pm, Matt Kanninen <mathias...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Per:
>
> http://d.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html
>
> The current platform version distribution of devices accessing the
> android market is:
>
> Android 1.5     3       7.9%
> Android 1.6     4       15.0%
> Android 2.1     7       40.8%
> Android 2.2     8       36.2%
>
> With Android 1.5 only represents 8% it might be worth it to only
> target 1.6 or higher.   I'm assuming you want to target 1.6 or higher
> because of some API introduced in 1.6 that you want to use?
>
> -MK
>
> On Nov 9, 2:36 pm, Neilz <neilhorn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a number of apps, and so far I have supported all versions from
> > level 3, android 1.5.
>
> > For my latest app, I'm considering supporting only from 1.6, or
> > possibly 2.1, upwards.
>
> > What's the trend thesedays? Is it becoming usual, or acceptable, to
> > adopt this strategy?

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