Android :: Which Android Firmware Versions Should Developer Try To Support?
Mar 1, 2010
I am working on an Android application that I would like to work on a reasonable number of devices. Currently my application works on 1.6 and greater, but uses some API function calls not supported in 1.5. How many devices on the market are restricted to 1.5? Is there a list of the latest firmware versions supported by all the available devices? I'm trying to see if it's worth my time to make my application work for 1.5, or if it won't really affect anyone.
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Aug 10, 2010
I've had my Moto Droid since just after the release and since rooting and ROMing in January, I'm really becoming more obsessed. Cyanogen has had a huge affect (for the better!) on my Android experience. Just curious what phone you guys think has the biggest developer community. (I'm obviously going with DROID ). I'd love to also hear the opinions of those with multiple Android phone experiences.
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Feb 18, 2009
This is my first post and I am new to Android so excuse my ignorance if this is well documented and common knowledge. I have a stock ADP, firmware 1.0, no updates no mods and of course I want to get the latest features such as voice control, latitude etc, and so begins the fun. Why is there nothing official that can be easily found which states what is going on for people that own the ADP? I must have read dozens of articles showing update procedures and claiming to have leaked OFFICIAL developer updates and only recently did i find 2 thread that eventually end with something stating there is NO official update for developer phones yet.
I have 2 gripes about this:
1. Why no official and clear statement from the development team to clarify this before people start scrambling desperately to install leaked versions that are false? (I know I almost did) 2. Why as a developer do I have to wait for features that are already available to end users?
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Jul 25, 2009
I would like to know that does google provides any paid support for android developer so that developer can progress fast and they have to do less searching.
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Jul 19, 2010
I want to develop application that should support all version (latest and old) and it should adjust screen resolution (large,medium). I read document. There I found legacy application if I develop application in 1.6 there I am giving:
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="3" android:targetSdkVersion="4"/>
Is it good way to develop application and is it support 1.5 and 1.5+. Users able to find my application there market.
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Apr 27, 2010
I am trying to downgrade Android developer phone 1's firmware version from 1.6. to 1.5 by following this link.
http://developer.htc.com/adp.html
Here I have completed till steps #7 of Update the Device Radio Firmware. While in steps 8. It start to load update.zip file. It analyze the update.zip file. and at last it shows that update Aborted. I have followed exact all steps mentioned in that list.
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Jan 22, 2010
What are the latest ROm and Firmware versions for HTC ?
I have : Firmware : 1.5 (2.0 is out right :S?)
And build : 2.73.405.5
Are there any updates ?
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Oct 28, 2009
I have a few scenarios where I guess I am not alone with. There is no easy solution but this has to be on top of the list I think.
1. Suppose you have an application that is compiled with 1.5 and is working fine even if started on a 1.6 device. But you now want to support other resolutions, so you need to compile with 1.6. Problem: If I recompile and publish the new apk, the 1.5 users want see my applications. Users already downloaded my application can not upgrade. (will there be a "new version" available shown to them in the market?)
2. Lets say your application works fine on 1.5 and 1.6 and you decided to publish your application twice with different package names. "MyApplication 1.5" and "MyApplication 1.6" for example. Problem: The user upgrading from a older version does not know that there is a new version, because you published a new Application. You can write it into the description and tell the user to download the 1.6 version but many users might not read that Settings from the other application are lost. Your downloads are split into two applications, so you might not make it into the top ranks that easy . You might even need to publish 4 applications if you have a light and a paid version.
3. Now 2.0 SDK is available and you want to add multi touch features or any other new stuff for all 2.0 users. Problem: The above problems are getting even worse. There is no way to easily upload multiple apks for the same application. Having to rename the package is also not making this better. Every time svn freaks out and marks everything as new. Sharing code between versions is difficult because of that.
I don't know if its just "3" (provider in Austria), but I still have not received an official update to 1.6. Testing on the real device is not possible with a 1.6 image if you don't want to root your phone and update the rom manually. 2.0 will be on some devices soon, so there is definitely a need to support all 3 versions. There should be a faster update cycle for the users or a slower update of new versions meaning bigger steps. or We get an easier way to support multiple versions. This also means we need a way to know how many actual devices with version 1.5 / 1.6 / 2.0 are already sold and/or upgraded. If i know that 1.5 is only on about 5% of the devices left, then I can just stop supporting that version and upgrade.
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May 4, 2010
I want my Android application to have maximum reach, and hence want to support all versions V1.5 onwards. I find some features lacking in V1.5 that are available in V2.0 or V2.1. Could I compile on V2.1, and then set minSDK for the application to run on 1.5? Plain logic says 2.1 specific features would not work, but let me know your thoughts. Also, what are some other workarounds? What would "you" normally do in such a situation?
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Sep 24, 2010
I am a newbie in the Android world, having limited experience in Java from my varsity days decades ago. These days I am a pampered dev in the .NET world. These days I am a proud owner of an HTC Desire and decided to try my hand at Android dev. Now I have struck a bit of a dilemma. I am writing an app which heavily uses XML chunks of data.
I immediately notice there are two ways of doing this - I can laboriously navigate down from the root level, or (somewhat less laboriously) I can use XPath. The trouble is XPath is only supported at a minimum API level of 8 according to the docs. Ideally I would like to support down to 4 (which is 1.6 I think?) What is the best way of doing this? Are there external libraries or packages I can use?
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Oct 3, 2010
Pls advise me the best unofficial firmware update to download. Froyo based.
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Jun 12, 2009
I'm looking to hire a developer for a small project. It involves searching and sending a request to my server which will return results in XML format. The app will have to display the results. Then based on that, the user will click on of the results and the app will send another request to the server and return the last bit of data. So basically a GUI that requests and displays data. My server does all the work, basically. I have designed a GUI with photo shop from pre-existing screen shots, so the developer just needs to emulate what I've drafted up.
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Nov 3, 2010
I've been looking for how to get a developer ID but I didn't find it.
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Apr 23, 2010
I'm a student developer. I have developed few apps for Android, I wanted to publish them in the Android Market, but I don't have access to Credit Card for sign up process as Banks won't issue credit cards for students (people with no income). Is there any alternative for this?
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May 13, 2009
When I try to import android.os.SystemProperties, EC says this can not be resolved. Is this due to something I missed or I am not supposed to use it? What is the recommended way to store application data?
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Jul 9, 2010
My name is Igor and I'm from Russia. I found that there is no good RPGs on this platform. So I want to create team to develop game. I have good friend, he's roleplaying fan and writes atmosphere modules (adventures) for his sessions. And he has ideas for computer (mobile) RPG. As soon as on the market only 2-3 RPGs this could be idea to create one and earn some money.Feel free to ask any question.
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Oct 3, 2009
How can I publish two versions of my app without changing the package name, so that users may upgrade to either version, one for Anroid 1.5 and one for Android 1.6 ? I want to offer new features requiring Android 1.6 as soon as possible, but not all users will have upgraded to Android 1.6.
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Jan 8, 2010
The requirement is totally simple: I want to have a lite and pro version of an app. There is a little bit of difference between those two apps, but they are 99% identically. Unfortunately it seems that the best choice is to really treat this as two projects that are one and the same and copy over the source code and assets from one to the other. The Android Manifest file must be different, because the Android Market - for some reason - makes the implementation's package name the ID. Working around this ID issue the straight forward approach would be to have a third project with the common code that exports its code, libraries and in a best case scenario also the ressources to the other two objects. Unfortunately this doesn't work. Only the actual Android projects generate the R.class and so the common project would need to be dependent on it..
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Sep 8, 2009
It's $400 and out of stock. There are Chinese Android 'phones on eBay for less than $100 - can I just use one of them for development? The answer is probably yes, so I guess that what I am asking is if the official HDK makes life (significantly) easier for me.
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Jan 8, 2010
Do I need google developer Phone to be an android developer? If I purchase a phone from Rogers with Android OS, is that ok for me to write applications and try it out?
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Jan 18, 2010
I have a myTouch 3G that currently is not connected to any service. I have been trying to use it as a dev phone but eclipse wont see it as proper target device. Does it need service for it to work?
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Dec 5, 2009
We were in a bit of a rush to publish our app at first, and my associate absentmindedly created a developer account under his personal google account. Naturally, he doesn't want anyone else to have access to his google account, but it means only he can access the developer account. The only problem here is we have an app published with a few hundred users. What I'd like to know is how to migrate the management of that app over to a different android development account. I know one can't change the association between developer account and google account, that's not what I'm asking about. I'd just like to preserve the app feedback that already exists, and not alienate any of the current users. Anybody know what I can do?
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Jun 1, 2010
I searched for a few different keywords and couldn't find an answer. I work for a mobile development company. We deployed an app to the Market under the client's developer account. We now want to transfer the app to a different developer account. Is there a way to do this, without confusing the user? My fear is that there will be two apps in the Market. One will no longer be supported. One idea we had was publish both. The existing one would get a nag screen that tells the user that this app is no longer supported and directs them to download the new version.
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Oct 31, 2010
Something really strange happened today and I could really use some help figuring it out. I believe its related to Google's SSO infrastructure, and I don't really know how to contact Google to get my application rescued.
I have a google apps account I used to create the application, its claytantor at sightlyinc dot com not a f...@gmail.com account but its a Google Apps account, so I used it to upload and distribute my application. Today when I was using blogger my account said "do you want to use claytantor at sightlyinc dot com or claytantor at sightlyinc dot com for this account?" what kind of choice is that they are both the same? Well my guess is that somehow I chose the one that locks me out of my Android Market account because when I went to try to upload a new version of my app it thinks I don't have an Android Market account.
Paying the extra 20 bucks wouldn't bug me but there is a version of my software out there that I cant access or manage now, and that *really* bothers me. If I create a new account I will have two versions of mys software floating around the new one and the old one that has been stranded! I cant live with that.
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Mar 10, 2009
I've developed for a bunch of platforms and I'm starting to get a bit frustrated with Android/Google. It seems like you didn't quite think things through for developers.
1) There's no way to dialog on ratings. Even in a stupid web blog the author is allowed to comment in a discussion. Ratings should be more like discussions. Lots of sites do this well, there's no need to reinvent the wheel.
2) There's no way to remove the ratings from dumb shills for other products who trash your product.
3) There's no way to see ratings that are declared as Spam. I'd like to see what's getting marked as Spam in case it's the same shills pushing their own products marking good reviews as Spam.
4) The score includes all those dumb shills so the star score is consistently low and the product will always languish.
5) We still don't have .33 for our phones. I can't mark something as Spam yet nor even see what's for sale on Market. This should have been ready when it rolled to users. Or at least tell us WHEN it will be ready. This 'coming soon' stuff doesn't do much fo rme.
6) All google lookups for doc go to the old doc site. Can't you at least upgrade your references in search to go to the new doc?
7) There's no way to post an update for a non-free product! Wtf is that? That's ok if you're producing the typical dumb iPhone flash game but for a real product?
8) There's still a huge black hole in the dev for bluetooth, as well as a bunch of missing documentation for more kernel-related stuff.
9) The web interface for market is miserable. Why can't we see all the apps there? Why don't we have the same set of controls we do from the phone along with a discussion/blog for ratings.
10) Adding a more serious set of rich-text info (with maybe a picture or two) as a hyperlink from market would be easy and really great for developers. 325 plaintext characters doesn't do much for anyone.
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Aug 4, 2010
I am looking for a developer to create a simple app for me. Its an insurance calculator. Please PM me if you can help. Its just a money multiplyer equation.
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Aug 3, 2010
I made an image button in eclipse and I tested it out (ran it) with the emulator in the android sdk package.
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="@drawable/cat1" /> <!-- pressed -->
<item android:state_focused="true"
android:drawable="@drawable/cat2" /> <!-- focused -->
<item android:drawable="@drawable/cat3" /> <!-- default -->
</selector>
Pressed and Default work with the mouse, but how do you focus it? Or if you can't, do you need to get an android phone?
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Mar 11, 2009
Is it against Google's rules to use the word "Android" in a developer name?I'm leaning towards no.While it is the name of the OS, Google didn't invent the word. For example, could I make my developer name "bobTheAndroid"?(I'm asking before I make my developer account so I don't somehow lose my $25)
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May 19, 2010
I am not allowed to post more than one hyperlink. But Amazon carries this book as well. I am picking these two books because of another popular thread saying I should have an Android book and a java reference but no one mentioned a book for either. I figured I'd go with the highest rated in for each of those criteria.I didn't know if I could ask a question in the same thread about what books so I figured it was better to start a new one. Code...
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Nov 17, 2009
How to unsubscribe to developer group?
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