breautek edited a comment on pull request #915: URL: https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/pull/915#issuecomment-629718173
> would you please summarize the motivations for dropping android 5.0 support? > as you already know android 5.0 can update its webview to the latest version so it is very capable to run modern web apps. The full discussion on this can be found at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd6b0401570ddf18f241e565904e084197f8731238f72482938a80cb4%40%3Cdev.cordova.apache.org%3E To Summarize: - Android 5.0 was deemed to have an insignificant market share - Android 5.0 was known to be buggy with severe memory leaks, which were resolved in 5.1 - Apparently not all vendors implemented the updatable webview in Android 5.0. - Users can always override the `minSdkVersion` to `21` if they really wanted to have their app available to android 5.0, and Cordova will **probably** work. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
