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No kidding... To me, the real story is that if you cover off Kitkat and Lollipop, you've got 70% of the Android market. Add Jellybean to the mix and you've bas
by zzalpha 11y ago
No kidding...
To me, the real story is that if you cover off Kitkat and Lollipop, you've got 70% of the Android market. Add Jellybean to the mix and you've basically got the entire userbase covered.
For a platform known for fragmentation, that's not nearly as bad as I was expecting.
- icefox 11y agoHow do android developers deal with that? Do you only use APIs that came out before or with Jellybean?
- zzalpha 11y agoIn essence. This is easier than it sounds, though, as there are a number of support libraries out there that provide emulations of newer APIs for older versions of Android.
- realusername 11y agoThere's also Android and Android, you need also to test for each popular product of Samsung since it's so different from stock and then hope there is no carrier-specific problem. And you also need test with a lot of different screens, but it's not like in web, you can't resize the emulator like this so it takes longer. Not trying to criticize, but it's still not easy to get an Android app to work mostly everywhere.