[android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread firebreather
info seems fuzzy on the impact of changing minsdkversion declaration, particularly in the android docs, where it appears to just limit the number of phones the app site will allow to download your app. if that was the case then you'd think everyone would just declare minsdk of 1. i'm

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread TreKing
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:26 AM, firebreather michaelirvingbr...@gmail.comwrote: info seems fuzzy on the impact of changing minsdkversion declaration, particularly in the android docs, where it appears to just limit the number of phones the app site will allow to download your app. if that was

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread firebreather
i'm developing on version 14 with minsdk declared of 10 (recently up from 8). my biggest user categories are tablets according to my dashboard. according to the docs, I need minsdk declaration of 11, among several other things, for tablets to use my apps. in response to Can you site where this

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Firebreather: 2013/10/29 firebreather michaelirvingbr...@gmail.com: i'm developing on version 14 with minsdk declared of 10 (recently up from 8). [snip] http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/quality/tablet.html#android-versions which has a long detailed list of 12 things needed

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread firebreather
I've never declared a target sdk, I figure that's safer. my android phone is version 10 so I can't increase my minimum or i'd be stuck with the increadibly slow emulator. it took hours to get a screenshot off it for the tablet google play image. it will be some time before I can afford a version

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Re: testing on the emulator takes literally hours for each run -- -- do you use the x86 emulator images? I do, and for me, it's faster than a Galaxy Note 2 (Linux, 64 bit, Intel CPU with kvm). http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html#accel-vm -- K 2013/10/29 firebreather

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread firebreather
also, thanks for pointing out K that this doesn't actually mean I have to use minsdk 11 like I assumed. i'll try just targeting for sdk 11 instead of not declaring a target at all. if it still works on my android 2.6.35.7 phone (version 10), i'll upload the target skd 11 declaration code. On

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread firebreather
well it won't work on my version 10 phone with a version 11 target (no compatible device error), so i'll have to leave it with no target declared. On Monday, October 28, 2013 4:38:59 PM UTC-5, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: Firebreather: 2013/10/29 firebreather michaelir...@gmail.com javascript::

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
2013/10/29 firebreather michaelirvingbr...@gmail.com: well it won't work on my version 10 phone with a version 11 target (no compatible device error), so i'll have to leave it with no target declared. It's possible to run a targetSdk = 11 on an 2.* device. I do it every day :) A minSdk = 11

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread firebreather
it does appear to be working with now with version 11 targeted, so i'll upload that. it recommends version 14 targeted. any opinions on whether I should target 10 or 14? thanks for the responces. if you answer my identical question on stack overflow you'll get star and check attack overflow