Re: [PROPOSAL] Drop Android 4.4 Support

2020-01-29 Thread Chris Brody
I think we have consensus now to start dropping support for Android 4.4 & 5.0, minimum is now 5.1. Reasoning and explanations are clear to me, seem to be clear to others. I think we would go through the normal process on GitHub, which we know to be a major breaking change. Switching the browser co

Re: [PROPOSAL] Drop Android 4.4 Support

2020-01-28 Thread Norman Breau
I think ES6 is a legit concern. The only way I think we can use ES6 features and *guarantee* there will work for all users is if we use a transpiler such as babel to convert es6 syntax to es3, or whatever the minimum we believe to be safe. So simply dropping 4.4 and 5.0 doesn't mean we can sta

Re: [PROPOSAL] Drop Android 4.4 Support

2020-01-28 Thread Gearoid M
+1 on setting the minimum to 5.1 Personally, I always set the minimum for my own apps to 5.1 anyway as React doesn't work on 5.0 or below without polyfills On Tue, 28 Jan 2020, at 16:27, julio cesar sanchez wrote: > I like the "we officially support SDK 22, SDK 21 might work", I'm +1 on SDK > 22

Re: [PROPOSAL] Drop Android 4.4 Support

2020-01-28 Thread julio cesar sanchez
I like the "we officially support SDK 22, SDK 21 might work", I'm +1 on SDK 22 then But for ES6, I think that's a bigger problem. Android 5+ is supposed to have the updatable webview, but that's not always true, some vendors didn't implement it for some reason. Also, even if implemented, users mig

Re: [PROPOSAL] Drop Android 4.4 Support

2020-01-28 Thread Bryan Ellis
My primary view for dropping 5.0 was also based off of low usage. Obviously there will always be vulnerabilities. The CVE list showed a dropped from 5.0.0 to 5.0.2 but an increase again in 5.1. This, of course, will always be expected on minor and major releases. It was also known that 5.0 has a

Re: [PROPOSAL] Drop Android 4.4 Support

2020-01-28 Thread Jesse
+1 to drop everything before 5.1 > On Jan 28, 2020, at 7:53 AM, Chris Brody wrote: > > +1 to drop Android 4.4 support > >> Do we have a reason for 5.1 instead of 5.0 other than the low usage? >> >> Originally, I was thinking 5.0+, but after seeing low usage, I leaned >> over to 5.1. So low us

Re: [PROPOSAL] Drop Android 4.4 Support

2020-01-28 Thread Chris Brody
+1 to drop Android 4.4 support > Do we have a reason for 5.1 instead of 5.0 other than the low usage? > > Originally, I was thinking 5.0+, but after seeing low usage, I leaned > over to 5.1. So low usage was my primary reasoning for my +1. +1 to drop 5.0 and +1 on the reasoning here I don't reca

Re: [PROPOSAL] Drop Android 4.4 Support

2020-01-28 Thread Norman Breau
Do we have a reason for 5.1 instead of 5.0 other than the low usage? Originally, I was thinking 5.0+, but after seeing low usage, I leaned over to 5.1. So low usage was my primary reasoning for my +1. On 2020-01-28 11:32 a.m., julio cesar sanchez wrote: +1 for dropping Android 4.4 since it do

Re: [PROPOSAL] Drop Android 4.4 Support

2020-01-28 Thread julio cesar sanchez
+1 for dropping Android 4.4 since it doesn't have updatable webview and it's a pain to maintain such old chromium version Do we have a reason for 5.1 instead of 5.0 other than the low usage? El mar., 28 ene. 2020 a las 16:13, Norman Breau () escribió: > +1 to drop Android 4.4 - 5.0. > +1 to su

Re: [PROPOSAL] Drop Android 4.4 Support

2020-01-28 Thread Norman Breau
+1 to drop Android 4.4 - 5.0. +1 to support Android >= 5.1 On 2020-01-28 10:59 a.m., Bryan Ellis wrote: I would like to open the discussion and vote to *drop Android 4.4 (KitKat) support* in the upcoming next major release. As of Dec 2019, Stat Counter reports that the *market share for Android

[PROPOSAL] Drop Android 4.4 Support

2020-01-28 Thread Bryan Ellis
I would like to open the discussion and vote to *drop Android 4.4 (KitKat) support* in the upcoming next major release. As of Dec 2019, Stat Counter reports that the *market share for Android 4.4 is only at 2.6%*. Additionally, there is a report of *128 vulnerabilities in Android 4.4.4*. As far a