Actually I made that comment a little flippantly; 10% still translates to a
whole bunch of users when you are talking about an OS like Android. I have
changed my mind and I will suffer a little bit of that
Backwards Compatibility pain in order to cater for every user.
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On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:43:16 AM UTC, Robert Massaioli wrote:
everything below v7 of the SDK is only about ten percent of the market which
> I think means that app developers will ditch those platforms in the future.
> (If not right now)
I don't know about you, but I'm disinclined to un
Thankyou, these are really useful statistics though it is really confusing
that they tell different stories. However it does say that everything below
v7 of the SDK is only about ten percent of the market which I think means
that app developers will ditch those platforms in the future. (If not r
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Robert Massaioli wrote:
> Actually...can you please post the statistics that the developer console
> gives you for device distribution?
First value is from the console, second from the chart linked, blanks are
not available. 2.1 is the only one that's even remot
Well that is annoying, cannot even trust the statistics pages. Now I
actually have to debate what to do. Not as fun as I was planning. Ah well, I
guess that is the price that people pay for newer and better versions of
Android. Though Google really needs to get ontop of those statistics then; I
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Robert Massaioli wrote:
> They only make up a really small segment of the market anyway:
> http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html
>
That says 3.0%. The new Developer Console stats say 5.1%. Personally, I
wouldn't trust either sinc
Thanks for the response. That makes sense, in that case I was considering
releasing my app so that it supported version 3 of the SDK because that
would be easy to do, however I really want the android.accounts package so
maybe I will just make the min SDK level be 5 and ignore those on old
phon
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Robert Massaioli wrote:
> Just out of interest though does anybody know what would happen if you just
> did this anyway? What happens when you bump the min SDK version up?
AFAIK, your app disappears from the Market for those people that don't have
the right OS v
>
> Use reflection or check the build version to determine if you can use newer
> APIs.
>
>
>> If I simply update the application with a new min SDK version, will
>> 1.5 and 1.6 users be prompted to uninstall? Or will they just not see
>> the update?
>>
>
> I assume they will not see the updat
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Warren wrote:
> I want to update the apps to take advantage of some of the newer features
> offered in Android 2.0 and greater. What is the best way forward so I don't
> break things for my
> current 1.5 and 1.6 users?
>
Use reflection or check the build version
I have a sizable install base already on some apps with Android 1.5
set as the minimum version. I want to update the apps to take
advantage of some of the newer features offered in Android 2.0 and
greater. What is the best way forward so I don't break things for my
current 1.5 and 1.6 users?
If I
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