im new at this so should i stay with 1.1 or move to 1.5 On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote:
> A major goal for releases since 1.0 is to not break existing applications > that are using the official SDK. Some times there will be things that > break, unintentionally, so you will want to test against current builds, but > that should very much be the minority. > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:09 PM, JP <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> OK - I was more looking beyond the release at hand and concerned about >> the "real thing" coming out. How about the build(s) that the carrier >> (s) deliver(s) to their customers eventually. Say their build is 1.5.x >> only (to safe space). Such a scenario would be disaster as the apps >> would be stuck in no-mans-land either running on the G1/1.1, or the >> new ones only, until all "old" G1/1.1 customers have received their >> carrier OTA update to reach 1.5.x. >> >> >> On Apr 13, 9:01 pm, Xavier Ducrohet <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:53 PM, JP <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > Hey, thanks Xavier! >> > > I've read the blog but I am not clear re: backwards compatibility: >> > > Will apps currently built against 1.0 or 1.1 run on handsets released >> > > w/ 1.5, say the new keyboard-less devices? Or do we need to account >> > > for the changes in 1.5 and re-release? (This would be hell) >> > >> > As long as you don't use private APIs you *should* be good (except for >> > some minor permission changes.) >> > >> > That said, we fixed some bugs that may have some minor side effects. >> > For instance, we changed the minimum size of some widgets in 1.5 that >> > may impact on your layouts. >> > >> > This SDK contains both 1.1 and 1.5, so you should keep compiling your >> > applications against Android 1.1 but test them on both 1.1 and 1.5 >> > emulators. >> > >> > Xav >> > -- >> > Xavier Ducrohet >> > Android Engineer, Google. >> >> > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > > > > > -- ^_^ Booyaaaa Sent from North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
