Deprecating Android 2.1 Support

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

Hi all,

We are currently thinking about deprecating support for Android 2.1 in
our next release, as it solves a few problems for us.

Google statistics suggest that only about 7.5% of devices today are on
Android 2.1 or older, and we expect that this figure will be even
lower by the time we hit official public release around September
2012.

Does anyone see any problems with this? We can't think of any, but
want to make sure we are not committing some heinous error in doing
so.

Thanks,
Paul.

[Cathy Ewald]

Agree it is a good move

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[Harish Pillay]

While I think it makes sense, I think it would be useful for a final
stable version for the Android 2.1 be made available before ending
support.

Harish

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

This does make sense. The question is whether there are any models of
phones that run 2.1 only that we support. The HTC/Dream aka G1 can
run CyanogenMod 6, which is 2.2, and thus should be fine.

I expect that 0.08 when the RC is ratified will probably fill that
role of a final 2.1-compatible release.

So, is anyone on the list running our software on an Android 2.1
device, and like to test 0.08 on it?

Paul.

[Jeremy Lakeman]

Was there something in particular that we needed to change? It
shouldn't be that hard to allow some backwards compatibility.