The whole point is to have one APK across all official Android versions. This requirement is going to confuse pur users even more and make maintaining the platform next to impossible. Web developers shouldn't have to know about API level.
The fact is that we've been fairly successful in maintaining the ability to create one apk to run on as many Android devices as possible and to go back on this would flush years of hard work down the drain for zero benefit. We might as well completely fork Android so that we have a version of the platform for each version, since right now, I'm fairly certain the code does not build on API level 10. The only reason that I heard to make this configurable is the use case where someone is using an old version of Cordova and it no longer compiles on the latest SDK. This occurred once in the entire history of the project, and was a specialized use case for PhoneGap build, which has to support this due to user demand. This is why I think that Cordova should create projects that support and target the latest widely adopted version of Android at the time of release. In the case of 3.2.0, that would be Android 4.3. Other than the above narrow use case, there is zero reason to have this be configurable. On Nov 7, 2013 4:09 AM, "Axel Nennker" <ignisvul...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the highest level is not what developers need. > When you create a product/app you want your app to run on as many devices > as possible and not only the latest. > Am 07.11.2013 11:36 schrieb "Brian LeRoux" <b...@brian.io>: > > > Apologies I think there is another thread about this but I'd like to > > understand more about what we're thinking here. There's been discussion > > that we should make this configurable. I disagree. I think we need to > > target highest available level possible, as we always have in the past, > and > > take backwards compat on. That means we need to update [1]. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > [1] > > > > > https://github.com/apache/cordova-cli/blob/master/src/metadata/android_parser.js#L56 > > >
