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I was stuck using Android honeycomb way past its prime for a few years as a kid. Granted that was years ago so it's /really/ past its prime now, but I was defin

by 63 5y ago

I was stuck using Android honeycomb way past its prime for a few years as a kid. Granted that was years ago so it's /really/ past its prime now, but I was definitely grateful for the developers who still supported my device since I didn't have the choice to get a newer one. Tangentially, there are parts of Honeycomb I miss, like a coherent task manager that actually killed app processes when I asked it to, being able to easily root my device with no real downsides, etc.

grishka 5y ago
As an Android app developer, I'd say that Honeycomb was a very odd release. It only (officially) supported tablets, its sources were never released, but it already had GPU acceleration for UI rendering (aka HWUI), most of the new APIs like view transforms and animators, and a very first iteration of the Holo theme. From my point of view, it never saw much adoption. As 4.0 was released, many 3.0 devices were updated to it, including both tablets I had for testing. So, naturally, when I dropped 3.0 together with 2.3.3, no one really noticed, despite the app having tens of millions of users.