I like the "we officially support SDK 22, SDK 21 might work", I'm +1 on SDK 22 then
But for ES6, I think that's a bigger problem. Android 5+ is supposed to have the updatable webview, but that's not always true, some vendors didn't implement it for some reason. Also, even if implemented, users might not have the webview up to date. And devs testing if their apps work on Android 5-6 will probably test on emulators, which don't support ES6 and their webview can't be updated. And worst of all, there are no stats about that, so we can't know for sure how many users will be affected by this. El mar., 28 ene. 2020 a las 17:14, Bryan Ellis (<er...@apache.org>) escribió: > My primary view for dropping 5.0 was also based off of low usage. > > Obviously there will always be vulnerabilities. The CVE list showed a > dropped from 5.0.0 to 5.0.2 but an increase again in 5.1. This, of course, > will always be expected on minor and major releases. > > It was also known that 5.0 has a severe memory leak that users were > experiencing and resolved in 5.1. > > We would set the minSdk higher but that does not mean users cant lower it > to support 5.0, at their own risk. This value could be set in config.xml. > > What we would say could be along the lines of, it might work with 5.0 but > we officially support is 5.1. > > Lastly, if we started to convert the browser code to ES6, for example, it > will not work on Android 4.4. These are changes that would possibly come. > We just have to think about the "updatable webview" when that time comes. > > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 12:53 AM Chris Brody <chris.br...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > +1 to drop Android 4.4 support > > > > > Do we have a reason for 5.1 instead of 5.0 other than the low usage? > > > > > > Originally, I was thinking 5.0+, but after seeing low usage, I leaned > > > over to 5.1. So low usage was my primary reasoning for my +1. > > > > +1 to drop 5.0 and +1 on the reasoning here > > > > I don't recall seeing a device running 5.0 for quite a few years. I > > recall seeing "Android 5" or "Android 5.0" devices actually running > > 5.1 or 5.1.1. (Unfortunately my memory is a bit hazy on this.) > > > > A side question is the how. Would we just set a higher > > minimumSdkVersion number (if I spelled it right) or do something else? > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > > > > >
