[guardian-dev] Popularity of Gingerbread

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at guardianproject.info
Mon Aug 1 14:47:59 EDT 2016



Michael Rogers:
> On 01/08/16 16:50, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
>> Three years ago in Thailand, I bought a $50USD 6 inch wifi only tablet
>> device running 4.0 ICS. I also bought a $100USD smartphone running
>> 2.3.6, which seemed to be the last of its kind.
>>
>> We do still see support requests for Orbot users still running 2.3.x
>> from time to time, and are working at adding support back in to SDK 10
>> and pre-PIE devices. Supporting SDK 8/9/10 is more of a gesture towards
>> leaving no user behind, than a practical necessity.
>>
>> Another way to look at it is, if you have limited resources and need to
>> balance building a storage, network and battery efficient app, versus
>> supporting old APIs/OSes, I would say that the former is a better use of
>> time and skills.
> 
> I'll take that advice, thanks Nathan!
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael

To second what Nathan said, for Briar, I'd recommend setting at least
android-16 as the minimum.  Its a fair amount more effort to support the
older versions.

.hc

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