Pete.. that is what I was thinking... for me anyway.. given that I would guess in a year or so 70+% of the market, if not more should be on 4.x android, including pretty much all the tablets save maybe a couple %, that given that I am pretty sure my app won't be "polished" for at least 6 months before I can release it, I am leaning towards focusing on 4.0. I suspect 4.0 will hold a share for quite some time, as a lot of devices were updated to 4.0.x but will probably get nothing much after that. Seems most devices last about 1 year of updates, if that, before carriers decide to stop updating so that users will upgrade to newer devices so that they can keep making money off of the devices. It's a shame.. I can run android 4 on my original droid from 2+ years ago.. it's not super smooth, but it works. There are many 1Ghz single core devices that could benefit from android 4, but definitely a ton of dual-core devices that are apparently not going to get updates to it but could easily handle it. I blame the people (me included) because most of us just have to have new shiny crap every few months or so.. and the carriers know it.. so the majority of us just can't wait to upgrade to the next greatest thing! Shoot..I got an S3 and I want the Note 2!!
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Pete Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > Within 6 months it will have the lions share as the GB devices come off > contract. > > Pete > On Jan 5, 2013 6:44 PM, "anatoly" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There is support for multiple APK in the dev console and Google Play so >> one is able to maintain multiple APKs and update all of them or the most >> latest. >> >> >> >> On Friday, January 4, 2013 9:01:56 AM UTC+2, andjarnic wrote: >> >>> From what I can tell, it took about a year for Android 2.3 to push out >>> Android 2.2 and 2.1, and it looks like Android 4, which I think hit devices >>> around mid year, has moved up to about 27% of the device market within 6 >>> months.. so is it a safe bet that by mid year, more than 50% of devices >>> will be running android 4.0 and later? I'd really like to have my app focus >>> on android 4 apis, UI layout design, etc.. but with over 55% of the market >>> 2.3.x and below, I am just wondering if I plan for my app about 4 months or >>> so from now, if working on 4.x and later would be worth the risk. >>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Android Discuss" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-discuss/-/GojkPag51d4J. >> 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-discuss?hl=en. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en.
