My biased 2cents: Gingerbread may still have business sense in some cases, but for new cordova apps, I can't see how it is justifiable. If you are maintaining a legacy app, you can stick to your older cordova version. If you are creating a new app that needs to target 2.3 (or 2.2 even) and still have a really good experience (you are targeting to be in the top 10 apps and have the budget to do so), please go build native.
-Michal On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:12 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> wrote: > I never test on gingerbread. > > My opinion is that devs that really need it can just use older Cordova > versions, or can fight through the testing themselves. With multi-apk > support in the play store, you could even use a different version of > Cordova for gingerbread vs. ICS+ > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:55 PM, tommy-carlos williams <to...@devgeeks.org> > wrote: > > > I know they are old, but I have always wanted one, heh. > > > > -- > > tommy-carlos williams > > > > On 8 January 2015 at 12:54:24, Joe Bowser (bows...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > Those stickers are old! I don't go to Android conferences, sine Android > > devs hate us these days. > > > > On Wed Jan 07 2015 at 5:53:04 PM Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > > > > > ! > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015, 6:49 PM tommy-carlos williams <to...@devgeeks.org > > > > > wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> -- > > >> tommy-carlos williams > > >> > > >> On 8 January 2015 at 12:37:59, Brian LeRoux (b...@brian.io) wrote: > > >> > > >> 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 > > >> > >> > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >
