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By using the well designed and thought out frameworks that Google provides exactly for this particular reason. Honestly this whole "fragmentation" thing is a r
by grammaton 16y ago
By using the well designed and thought out frameworks that Google provides exactly for this particular reason. Honestly this whole "fragmentation" thing is a red herring. You create your app, you create different sets of resources (images and layouts) for different classes of device (broadly speaking there are three groups of Android phones) and that's about it - you're done. Developing for Android has entailed way less worry about specific devices than, say, Blackberry or feature phones.
- nailer 16y agoMain thing is there is stuff you can do with minsdk set to 2.0 that customers using HTC Heros, Sony X10s, and other popular but not updated devices won't be able to access.
- bad_user 16y agoIf your app is any good, that's an incentive to upgrade, no?
- nailer 16y agoUsers don't have the choice, alas.
- grammaton 16y agoAnother point the author misses is that most users - and for that matter developers - aren't chasing the latest features in Android. Look at Froyo for instance - it's awesome, but I can guarantee you that right now, probably less than 1% of apps in the market actually use Froyo specific features. And as nailer points out, if you really must use them, then you can make sure no one with a phone earlier than that can even see your app in the market.
- keltex 16y agoI totally agree. Since when did developers need exactly the same specs on every device to develop a good app? It doesn't seem to be an issue for Web / Facebook / PC / Mac / Linux apps.