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Re: Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

#391

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They _don't_ trust you to do that stuff. Not unilaterally at least. In a healthy system you generally aren't able to change anything without sign off from multiple other people.

If I have a group of N people who I individually don't trust not to use mike1234 as a password, I wouldn't trust them as a collective either - at least until N gets impractically large.

So no need for code reviews then since all humans are fallible!

Re: Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

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Are you sure you need a specific feature of Android 11 / API_LEVEL_30? Would it be totally impossible technically to target API_LEVEL_28 (Android 9)? Many people in your users "niche" deliberately use an older device (such as Android 9) to limit the phone addiction: newer device => richer experience => even more addiction => for this reason some people in your niche use an older phone.

Well, you are right about the audience, many people might prefer to downgrade to older versions. However, support of older versions will significantly complicate the development. The app uses several APIs that are not available on older versions. In one moment in time when I had the support of lower versions the app consisted of many wrappers for OS API versions. It was a challenge to support and add new features to…

Out of curiosity, which API are you using, not available in Android 9 / API_LEVEL_28?

Re: Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

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Well, you are right about the audience, many people might prefer to downgrade to older versions. However, support of older versions will significantly complicate the development. The app uses several APIs that are not available on older versions. In one moment in time when I had the support of lower versions the app consisted of many wrappers for OS API versions. It was a challenge to support and add new features to…

Out of curiosity, which API are you using, not available in Android 9 / API_LEVEL_28?

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Re: Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

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Well, you are right about the audience, many people might prefer to downgrade to older versions. However, support of older versions will significantly complicate the development. The app uses several APIs that are not available on older versions. In one moment in time when I had the support of lower versions the app consisted of many wrappers for OS API versions. It was a challenge to support and add new features to…

Out of curiosity, which API are you using, not available in Android 9 / API_LEVEL_28?

I just checked all APIs/Libs that the app uses had declared support of API_LEVEL_28, but have recommended a higher target (above 30). My bad. I assumed this modern Material 3 Compose had hard API-level requirements.

Re: Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

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Out of curiosity, which API are you using, not available in Android 9 / API_LEVEL_28?

I just checked all APIs/Libs that the app uses had declared support of API_LEVEL_28, but have recommended a higher target (above 30). My bad. I assumed this modern Material 3 Compose had hard API-level requirements.

Would you release an update that works on Android 9+?
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