Personally, I'm still supporting 1.5+ in all my apps. But then I don't have any functionality that needed a higher SDK; the few things that I did want to use were easy enough to manage via reflection (or similar techniques). Nor have I had any great difficulties supporting 1.5 devices in the wild.
YMMV, of course. If the above isn't true for you, and it's worth sacrificing 8% of your sales to avoid whatever hassles you're experiencing, then go ahead and drop it. String On Nov 10, 7:40 am, Neilz <neilhorn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? -- 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
