Nic wrote:
> We are upgrading our application to add 2.0 support. I have read
> http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/api-levels.html and the
> older blog post 
> http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/backward-compatibility-for-android.html.
> I want to avoid using reflection if possible.
> 
> I have found that if I set my minSdkVersion="3" in the application
> manifest but in my build path in eclipse point to the Adroid 2.0 jar
> file I can compile with direct calls to 2.0 code (with the relevant
> code to ensure they are not invoked on <2.0 devices).

Have you tested this code on a 1.5 emulator? If it attempts to load a
class that refers to missing APIs -- even if the code paths would not
execute those references -- you will fail on a VerifyError.

> What are other people
> using for multi-targeting different API levels with the same package?

I recommend reflection.

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