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I don't get the fragmentation argument here - there is nothing about Facebook Home that prevents it from being used on Android 2.x - all of the functions it use
by RyanZAG 14y ago
I don't get the fragmentation argument here - there is nothing about Facebook Home that prevents it from being used on Android 2.x - all of the functions it uses are available there. The choice of Android 4+ is simply to make development easier. This is exactly the same as choosing to only target Chrome and ignoring IE6, which many new developments (Google included) now do. The whole argument about the differences between Android and the Web in this case simply don't hold up, as it's exactly the same situation.
- Zigurd 14y ago"Fragmentation" is a horrible name, and sometimes people use it to refer to problems that don't actually exist, but there is a very serious problem with Android updates: While iPhone users can expect prompt updates directly from Apple, Android OEMs and the carriers they do business with effectively make phones you buy at the carriers' shops nearly impossible to update. That's horrible, and the Nexus branding and technology program hasn't fixed it. Way too few Nexus devices, way too many OEMs. All that said, targeting Android 4.x+ is rational. Facebook Home is going to push some capacity boundaries. No reason to buy trouble by targeting earlier revisions. However, neither my TF300 nor my Nexus 4 are listed as compatible. So Facebook has somehow taken a crummy situation and made it even worse. It apperently isn't compatible with all 4.x devices.
- bookwormAT 14y ago"However, neither my TF300 nor my Nexus 4 are listed as compatible. [...] It apperently isn't compatible with all 4.x devices." It is running perfectly fine on my Nexus 4.
- Zigurd 14y agoThe Play Store does not offer to install it on my Nexus 4, which is on AT&T via Straight Talk. All choices are greyed-out.