+1 on setting the minimum to 5.1 Personally, I always set the minimum for my own apps to 5.1 anyway as React doesn't work on 5.0 or below without polyfills
On Tue, 28 Jan 2020, at 16:27, julio cesar sanchez wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
