I have tried on a 1.6 emulator and device. But not a 1.5 emulator. I see your point. I am not a java expert but I am guessing there maybe some conditions where the class loader my try to load the missing class even though the code is not going to be called?
For now I will stick with reflection. But it is going to become very unwieldy as we support more of the 2.0 apis (e.g AccountManager/ContactsContract). On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Development Wiki: http://wiki.andmob.org > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[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
