Google makes versions of OS quite often and people change their phones one time in 2 and more years. What to do with all those people ? [import]uid: 44975 topic_id: 7325 reply_id: 28105[/import]
This is straight from Google’s Android Developer site… Current as of 15th March 2011. This is a breakup of devices that accessed the Android Market in the previous 14 day period, which would be the target market here.
Platform Distribution
Android 1.5 - 3.0%
Android 1.6 - 4.8%
Android 2.1 - 29.0%
Android 2.2 - 61.3%
Android 2.3 - 0.7%
Android 2.3.3 - 1.0%
Android 3.0 - 0.2%
Let me also say,that a little corona test app I use showed almost a 20% frame rate increase in going from 2.2 to 2.3.3 on a Nexus One.
Ben [import]uid: 28534 topic_id: 7325 reply_id: 28207[/import]
I am a bit concern of the cutoff being at 2.2.
Here are the statistics of my App in the android market at the moment.
1 Android 2.2 63.9% (76)
2 Android 2.1 27.7% (33)
3 Android 1.6 6.7% (8)
4 Android 2.3 0.8% (1)
5 Android 2.3.3 0.8% (1)
Other than my own LG540 is on 2.1, which now render me unable to test with the newer builds, I am afraid of loosing the 30%+ user base that I have. I think I can live with not having 1.6 but 2.1 for me is quite a significant amount of customers.
I haven’t been using Corona for more than a few days but I hope the sacrifice made by dropping 2.1 is worth it.
Dzul
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What about Android 3.0? [import]uid: 41353 topic_id: 7325 reply_id: 34126[/import]
i would also like to know about 3.0? [import]uid: 29997 topic_id: 7325 reply_id: 37998[/import]
I haven’t experienced issues with CoronaSDK on Android 3.0. [import]uid: 4596 topic_id: 7325 reply_id: 38002[/import]
IMHO the worst part is not the limitation to the 2.2 Androis OS, but dropping Arm6 support.
There are a lot of perfectly every-day usable Arm6 smartphones with Android 2.2 and Arm 6 sold in the budget price range right now here in Germany (i.e. Samsung GT I5510, just bought one a week ago).
Hardly any customer looks at the processor specifics when making a buying decision-- they look at features and price (and maybe the OS version).
And in spite of running Android 2.2 with the latest updates those will not be able to run Corona Apps—
Since mass-market usually means limited budget one can safely assume that the statistic of 67% Android 2.2 devices means that a great number of the 67% still will not be able to run the Corona Apps—
The kind of App I want to build does not need any processor superpower,But it needs as many users as possible… so I would not mind to omit using features that are too processor heavy if the were pointed out in the SDK as Arm7only . [import]uid: 67265 topic_id: 7325 reply_id: 39737[/import]
Hi there. We are considering build games cross plataform, and I would like to know how is this suport today?
Is arm6 supported? Most devices here in Brazil are arm6 processors. [import]uid: 50425 topic_id: 7325 reply_id: 45085[/import]
The biggest problem with not supporting arm6 is that we cannot use
the eclipse/android emulator. It’s a two-fold problem…waiting on google to update the emu for arm7 or asking and trying to get arm6 on corona… [import]uid: 67514 topic_id: 7325 reply_id: 45110[/import]
Hello!
Is ARM11 processor supported?
Thank you. [import]uid: 38658 topic_id: 7325 reply_id: 58769[/import]
The market will allow you to specify the version that you support.
This is normally done in the Android manifest for the app, but I’m not sure how much control you have there from Corona.
(I’m new to corona as well).
However, int he worst case, you can use other filters to try and block users below 2.1.
At the very least, you can tell the users not to bother if they don’t at least have 2.1.
Our company terminated support for versions below 2.1 a year ago. [import]uid: 22381 topic_id: 7325 reply_id: 59808[/import]