I would say any thoughts of dropping Gingerbread are most likely premature at this point. Last time I checked, Gingerbread accounted for about a half of accesses to the market. I don't think you can afford to ignore that. Our own app usage seems skewed towards new Android versions but we'd still lose over a quarter of active installs if we dropped Gingerbread.
Market shares this high aren't going away any time soon. Unless your app is very lucky and successful from the start, you'll probably be glad for every single user you can get after your initial release, and even if you don't release until next year, chances are quite a few of these users will still have Gingerbread... On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Kevin Duffey <[email protected]> wrote: > Dashman, I am curious why you would want to support anything previous to > Android 2.1.. and really 2.2 these days. From what I can see on the graph, > there is only a few % of devices with < Android 2.2 on them. I had a > similar question with regard to when Android 4 will be the majority of > devices in the market, with a rough target of probably 6 months or so > before that happens. My purpose is similar to yours.. I'd rather deal with > 4.x SDKs and if by the time I think I can get my app out (6 months or so) > Android 4+ is the dominate OS with possibly a year out being 75%+ of the > market.. I could live with not gaining a lot of 2.3.x and previous owners > use of my app. I also ask this because at least from what I've followed on > some forums and in here, apps that run on 4.x that should run on 2.x seem > to have issues on many devices.. probably for any number of reasons. I am > still wavering on the idea of support 2.3.x and not using ActionBar and > some of the other 4.x features as my app doesn't absolutely need them, but > I also think the stability and more capable SDK for 4.x is nice to code to. > > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:50 PM, dashman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> i appreciate your help! >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
