I think keeping it above 95% is good.. Not sure. I will abstain from this vote.
On 9/17/12 1:57 PM, "Joe Bowser" <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hey > >Currently, we support 99.4% of all Android devices out in the wild. >That's great, but in reality we're having the following problems with >this approach: > >1. We are having a tough time finding and keeping Android 2.1 devices >(most get upgraded to 2.3 or just die) >2. The devices we do have are over three years old and/or are total >garbage >3. We have a dependency, commons-codec, which we have to currently >track so that it doesn't break the script. This JAR is so we can >support Base64 on Android 2.1. (on 3.7% of all Android devices) > >And those are the problems with supporting Android 2.1 off the top of >my head, not even getting into the crap state of the Android browser. >Then there's the Honeycomb tablets: > >1. Hardware acceleration is broken > >So, if we remove support for Honeycomb and Eclair and stick to Froyo, >Gingerbread, ICS and Jellybean, we should be able to eliminate most of >our pain points, and only not support 5.8% of Android users. I don't >know if this is acceptable, and whether we should continue supporting >2.1 and 3.x forever, but given that we deprecated support for 1.x, I >think there's precedent for it. > >Thoughts? > >Joe
