WPAndroid and Gingerbread Support Today the Android team…

WPAndroid and Gingerbread Support

Today the Android team had a chat about the upcoming releases and the version of Android that we will be supporting. The number of users that are running 2.3 (gingerbread) has been falling steadily, now at 15% of the total. In light of this we are proposing the following:

  • Version 2.6 will be the last version to support 2.3. All 2.6.x maintenance releases will also support 2.3.
  • Version 2.7 and beyond will require Android 4.0 or higher. (We’ll remove the ActionBarSherlock library)

One of the nice feature of Google Play is that we can offer the 2.6 apk to 2.3 users indefinitely while we continue iterating on the app for devices running 4.0 or higher.

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