I say we go 4.x all in and drop everything below. Time to draw a line. On Wed, Jan 7, 2015, 6:24 PM Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, who actually tests on Gingerbread? Please comment on this thread. > > On Wed Jan 07 2015 at 5:09:49 PM Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > >> > > >
