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Originally Posted by chaley
It is very possible that I will need to make a similar choice with Calibre Companion and Gingerbread (Android 2.3). Supporting Gingerbread causes no end of headaches to support around 5% of our installed base. Is that worth it? Do we continue to limit what we can do for 95% of our users to support people using a version of Android that has been dead for a long time? Or alternatively, do we in effect build two apps, one for Android 4 and one for Android <4? Tough choices, but ones that will be made one way or the other will he nill he.
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If I was in this situation, I'd fork my own application, rename the old one to Calibre Companion Legacy (assuming this is possible in the Android Play Store), and continue development with Android 4.0.4 (the forever-latest version of Icecream Sandwich) as a baseline.
The latest version of Gingerbread is about three years old already, and in phone land, that's almost ancient history.