[Ohrrpgce] move minimum android to 2.3 ?

[James Paige]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 9 March 2017 at 07:53, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
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>> tmc, I noticed in the Compiling for Android wiki page, you mention the
>> ndk-r12b branch. which raises the miminum supported version of Android to
>> 2.3
>>
>> I was playing around with Android Studio today, and I saw that when
>> creating a new project, and choosing what version to target, they give you
>> a handy estimate of what percentage of all devices would be compatible.
>>
>> Tutorials I looked at mostly seemed to suggest API 15 for a minimum
>> Android version of 4.03 since that provides a lot of features, and supports
>> 97.4% of all android devices.
>>
>> I then when to check out older versions. API 9 for a minimum version of
>> 2.3 claims 100% device support.
>>
>> So either they have just chosen to stop acknowledging the existence of
>> versions 2.2 and older, or those older versions actually do represent <
>> 0.1% of Android devices out there.
>>
>> Should we bump our minimum up to android 2.3?
>>
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> Are there any particular features in API 9 that you want to use?
>

Not really. I know that 2.3 is the minimum for targeting intel as opposed
to arm, right?

But the arm based apks work perfectly well on intel tablets, so I don't
care that much.



> I would have switched to API 9 a while ago, because it was a major
> improvement in the quality of libc and other NDK stuff, but my own phone is
> Android 2.2. But one of these days I'll spend $20 and get a better phone...
>

Well, no rush :)
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