This is interesting: according to the dashboard, less than 5% of individual phones connecting to the Google Android Market are still running 1.5. Yet you call that 1.5 phone, "a certain quite popular phone".
How could this be? I am curious to hear how either 1) the dashboard sampling could be that far off or 2) how popular this phone really is. Can you post the make and model# of the phone without compromising confidentiality? On Jan 17, 7:27 am, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently ran into some 1.5 issues with my widgets that were caused by a > certain quite popular phone that still runs 1.5 ignoring @dimen values. > > So supporting 1.5, understood as some kind of pure Platonic form, is no > problem at all, but dealing with bugs in particular firmware versions is not > fun at all. > > For now, both my apps continue to support 1.5, but a new project I'm working > on will only run on 1.6+ - because that's the first version with > multi-resolution support, and one really needs that these days. > > -- Kostya > > 2011/1/17 TreKing <[email protected]> > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:07 AM, String > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> For my own apps, I don't have a problem supporting 1.5, and I figure that > >> an extra 5% is nothing to sneeze at. But then, I've yet to run into > >> anything > >> that was really problematic for me to support on 1.5. Some of the resource > >> handling is kind of annoying, but not really a big deal. > > >> If I had some core feature that I just couldn't make backward-compatible, > >> then yes, I'd drop 1.5 too. But probably not until then, or until the > >> install percentage drops a few more points. > > > This. (Thanks for writing my post for me :-) ) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
