Also I no longer test Gingerbread unless explicitly investigating an issue (and even then, last time was maybe a year ago). CCA apps have never targeted 2.3.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote: > 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 >> > >> > >> >> > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> > >
