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
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
+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
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
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
+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
+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
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
+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
+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
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
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