I'm just mentioning it because my only Android 4.0.3 devices are an ASUS Transformer 2 tablet and a Motorola RAZR phone that did weird things to my computer when I tried installing the extra software to upgrade it.
However, if we did deprecate 2.3, I can just flash 4.0.3 on the Nexus S and use that. On Wed Jan 07 2015 at 5:07:27 PM tommy-carlos williams <to...@devgeeks.org> wrote: > It seems to me that if we are only going to drop *one*, that it should be > Gingerbread first, since it is a lower SDK version. > > How can an app support GB and *not* ICS? > > Having said that, I am also interested in the discussion of better numbers > on usage than just the Play Store (even if my gut reaction is always “BURN > 2.3 WITH FIRE”). > > -- > tommy-carlos williams > > On 8 January 2015 at 10:39:33, Joe Bowser (bows...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Hey > > So, 2015 is here, and we have the new Android Pie Chart: > > http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html#2015 > > Due to two percentage points on ICS and three on Gingerbread, we're stuck > supporting these platforms for the near future, but it looks like we're in > the bad spot of them reaching the magic 5% at the same time. Since I don't > like the idea of automatically dropping 10% of devices, I'm wondering what > we should deprecate first. > > Also, can we get better numbers for what's out there? Right now we still > have the only single point of reference, which is the Google Play store. > This doesn't cover China, or any other emerging markets. That said, things > like Android One, and vendors like Xiaomi are making KitKat and Lolipop the > standard. I know that I'm once again touching off a flame war between > developers who know that these platforms don't get the tests they need to > be actually considered supported, and various business interests who for > some unknown reason need this support, but we should have this discussion > again. > > Thoughts? > > Joe >
