You don't need to set your minSdkVersion to anything specific just to
declare in your manifest that you optionally require a feature.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Jovish P <[email protected]> wrote:

> In our application ,  we are showing
> details of customer such as phone number , email id , address. When he
> clicks on phone
> number we are initiating call, email means opening the native email
> client  and if it is
> address we are mapping that address in Google maps. supports from 1.6
> We are adding the telephony permission in the manifest file .Users  were
> not able to install
> our app on tabs such as Xoom, Galaxy 10.1 etc since they don't have call
> option in the tab.
> So when they try to install app it is saying incompatible. The call
> functionality is not necessarily
> needed for our app to work. So we thought to use
>
>     <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.telephony"
> android:required="false" />
>
> But the problem is , this is supported from 2.1. So we have to raise from
> 1.6 to
> 2.1. So we don't want to do that because many people are  still using 1.6.
> Any solutions for this isssue?
> We want the min version as 1.6 and it should work on Tabs which doesn't
> have call functionality too.
> Is it good idea to give two builds for the same app for this reason ?
>
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