if you don't believe me take a look on my post on stack overflow "any risk in using a higher sdk to develop than the minsdkversion target in manifest".. it still has 0 responses. i've posted similar questions over the last year, including whether the executable changes or improves with higher minsdkversion declaration, also with 0 responses.
On Monday, October 28, 2013 9:10:57 AM UTC-5, firebreather wrote: > how will it have a big impact?. will it make it run faster for the fewer > phones it will work on? if there is a significant performance increase it > would be worth it to abandon the version 10 users. why does it say I need > minimum version 11 declared for tablets when, at least for my app, it seems > this is not the case. my dashboard says most of my users are tablets. i'm > not on the 'for tablets' list on the app site though. > > On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 2:07:25 AM UTC-5, Piren wrote: > >> I think LINT has warnings now indicating use of API's higher than the >> minimum, but the best strategy is to revert back to the minimum SDK and see >> where the build fails and make sure that code is protected from running in >> that SDK version. >> >> P.S - Do notice that increasing the min api version to 11 will have a big >> impact on your app. >> >> On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 12:50:37 AM UTC+3, firebreather wrote: >>> >>> is there any significant risk in using a higher sdk to develop than the >>> minsdkversion target declared in the manifest? in other words, if i'm >>> developing on android 4.0.3 version 15 sdk/api will the app work correctly >>> on an android 2.3.3 api phone. >>> >>> currently my app has been working on both tablets and version 2.3.3 >>> phones with this strategy, although the console says I have to declare >>> minimum target 11 or better for tablets. I've been asking this basic >>> question for over a year in forums, stack overflow and support emails >>> without a response. >>> >> -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
