[android-developers] Re: Is Android backwards compatible?

2009-12-02 Thread Dave Rowntree
On Dec 1, 6:46 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Just to reiterate -- there is really no reason not to build against the most recent (2.0) SDK, as long as you test against the older ones.  Use android:targetSdkVersion to tell the system that you have developed against the newer

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is Android backwards compatible?

2009-12-02 Thread TreKing
I think this has been brought up before and I've seen this as well. If you open the AVD manager that has the older platforms on it, you can manually start an emulator with one of them from there, then select the running emulator as your target when you do Debug or Run.

[android-developers] Re: Is Android backwards compatible?

2009-12-01 Thread pcm2a
Yes doesn't really cover all the situations. Google has attempted to make code you write for 1.5 (code level 3) or 1.6 (code level 4) forwards compatible with Android 2.0 (code level 5). This works mostly but you may have to make a few tweaks. In my case when they went from 1.6 they broke

[android-developers] Re: Is Android backwards compatible?

2009-12-01 Thread Andrex
I'd say if you want to support as many handsets as possible, take pcm2a's advice and target 1.5. However if you really need to take advantage of new resolutions or you're not worried about download totals I'd say target 1.6 and wait for the other devices to catch up. On Dec 1, 10:14 am, bennyb

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is Android backwards compatible?

2009-12-01 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:12 AM, pcm2a reeeye...@gmail.com wrote: Another fine example is with the higher screen resolutions. If you made the mistake of using of a font size of say 12pt in 1.5, thats going to look like crap on a Droid with a higher resolution. I had to change a lot of stuff

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is Android backwards compatible?

2009-12-01 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Andrex emailofand...@gmail.com wrote: I'd say if you want to support as many handsets as possible, take pcm2a's advice and target 1.5. However if you really need to take advantage of new resolutions or you're not worried about download totals I'd say target