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> API/Platform fragmentation is the big problem. Supporting multiple APIs and gracefully degrading to older versions is much harder than being able to scale you
by king_jester 12y ago
> API/Platform fragmentation is the big problem. Supporting multiple APIs and gracefully degrading to older versions is much harder than being able to scale your UI. Apple has been pretty good with keeping customers devices as current as possible. Android, not so much.
This is highly dependent on which kind of APIs you are interacting with. Most API families are part of Google Play Services now which means they are generally available back to 2.3. Framework API differences between platforms are generally small and haven't been much trouble to work with, although some types of hardware interaction changed significantly between some platform levels (e.g. audio).