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Unfortunately, that seems to be the only way to get a reasonable baseline, given that Google has no way to actually update Android devices.
by s73ver_ 9y ago
Unfortunately, that seems to be the only way to get a reasonable baseline, given that Google has no way to actually update Android devices.
- Aissen 9y agoNo, the libs could be shared between apps, with at most one per API level, and shipped through the Play Store. If you want your app to work without Play Store, bundle the libs like today.
- kbenson 9y agoSo, basically the Visual C++ Redistributable[1] but for Android? Seems to work well for Windows, from what I can tell. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B
- s73ver_ 9y agoThey already have one distributed through the Play Store. That's the proprietary bits. The Support libs are open source, they can work without the Play Store, and different apps can have different versions of it.
- Aissen 9y agoYes, and they can ship a shared version of the open source libs (like the system webview). And as I specified, with one per API level (different versions). Maybe that would force them to have better QA of those libs as well.