Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
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Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
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Re: Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
#2I really wish they used version numbers rather than names so i can tell there’s a new version of android. I thought this was a just a distro for raspberry pis.
It’s pretty clear in the article though, no sweat :)
Re: Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
#3I really wish they used version numbers rather than names so i can tell there’s a new version of android. I thought this was a just a distro for raspberry pis. It’s pretty clear in the article though, no sweat :)
There is a version letter, P in this case. The last version being O(reo).
Re: Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
#4I really wish they used version numbers rather than names so i can tell there’s a new version of android. I thought this was a just a distro for raspberry pis. It’s pretty clear in the article though, no sweat :)
They sort of do, the first letter of the new name is always the next one in the english alphabet. That said, they do have version numbers but almost no marketing uses them with or instead of the codenames.
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Re: Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
#5I'm giving up on upgrading my apps for Android. The releases are dividing the market every single year and consequently steadily eroding sales.
On the one hand Google's Nexus was released 3 years ago and is now obsolete; on the other hand Apple's iPhone 5s was released 5 years ago and gets to run iOS 12. On top of this, the vast majority of my paying customers use iOS, not Android (a variety of lifestyle and reference apps).
This is disappointing; I can't financially justify further development for Android.
Oreo, released in 2017, is at a pitiful 12% installation share. [1]
Re: Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
#6I'm giving up on upgrading my apps for Android. The releases are dividing the market every single year and consequently steadily eroding sales. On the one hand Google's Nexus was released 3 years ago and is now obsolete; on the other hand Apple's iPhone 5s was released 5 years ago and gets to run iOS 12. On top of this, the vast majority of my paying customers use iOS, not Android (a variety of lifestyle and referenc…
Why not use an older API version?
Re: Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
#7I really wish they used version numbers rather than names so i can tell there’s a new version of android. I thought this was a just a distro for raspberry pis. It’s pretty clear in the article though, no sweat :)
There is a version letter, P in this case. The last version being O(reo).
Ahh, this does in fact make sense!
Re: Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
#8I'm giving up on upgrading my apps for Android. The releases are dividing the market every single year and consequently steadily eroding sales. On the one hand Google's Nexus was released 3 years ago and is now obsolete; on the other hand Apple's iPhone 5s was released 5 years ago and gets to run iOS 12. On top of this, the vast majority of my paying customers use iOS, not Android (a variety of lifestyle and referenc…
They stopped selling the premium "Pixel C" tablet about 6 months ago and that is now obsolete (no Android 9).
Re: Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
#9I'm giving up on upgrading my apps for Android. The releases are dividing the market every single year and consequently steadily eroding sales. On the one hand Google's Nexus was released 3 years ago and is now obsolete; on the other hand Apple's iPhone 5s was released 5 years ago and gets to run iOS 12. On top of this, the vast majority of my paying customers use iOS, not Android (a variety of lifestyle and referenc…
The only way you get only 12% installation share on Oreo is if you're targeting Indian continent with Hindi localisation.
For a western world targeted app, the stats are around 35-40% for Oreo right now. So you seem to be deliberately ignoring your own installation stats just to complain - the dashboard you're posted is pretty much not relevant for anyone but multi-million installation apps like Facebook. In other words, if you ignore Oreo users, you're ignoring more (wealthy) people than there are owners of iPhone X.
Also I simply fail to see how releases are dividing the market, considering the fact that for most apps new releases don't really require nearly as much maintenance as they do for new iOS releses. Granted, Oreo and P require a bit of work for apps that run in the background, but vast majority of the apps will just work if they implemented proper privacy respecting permissions since the release of 6.0 in 2015.
Just to be clear - I don't mind if you give up Android development (good riddance actually, way too much toxic people in the community), but PLEASE do not spread misinformation.
Re: Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
#10I'm giving up on upgrading my apps for Android. The releases are dividing the market every single year and consequently steadily eroding sales. On the one hand Google's Nexus was released 3 years ago and is now obsolete; on the other hand Apple's iPhone 5s was released 5 years ago and gets to run iOS 12. On top of this, the vast majority of my paying customers use iOS, not Android (a variety of lifestyle and referenc…
What are you upgrading? Usually it's just a matter of changing a couple numbers in the Gradle file. The only headache with new SDKs are if you're trying to integrate new features that aren't in appcompat but even then it's straight forward to support.