On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > I would not mind dropping 2.1; our apps for Wikipedia have been 2.2+ anyway due to breakages in the 2.1 browser. 3/3.2 would be slightly sad to miss only because there are Honeycomb tablets that haven't received ICS updates, including my Galaxy Tab 10.1 but ... let's be honest there's not a lot of them out there. I'm not sure how to blacklist those particular versions in the AndroidManifest however while still being compatible with 2.2/2.3... -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / bvibber @ wikimedia.org)
