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dubrowgn / micro-timer

A tiny, microwave inspired timer app for Android.
MIT License
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Older Android support? #8

Closed zekooooo closed 9 months ago

zekooooo commented 9 months ago

Hello, found your app on F-Droid and it looks really simple and very useful, but unfortunately I can't install it because my phone has Android 7.0

Is there a feature stopping it from working on Android versions below 9.0? To me, it seems like the sort of thing that might work even on the most ancient Androids :)

dubrowgn commented 9 months ago

Thanks for your interest. I did actually look at this before, but unfortunately the API I use for the core timer loop requires Android 9. I can take another look, but chances are probably not good.

dubrowgn commented 9 months ago

The variant of Handler.postDelayed() I'm using was added in Android 9. I can polyfil it by using Handler.postAtTime() and calculating the expiry time myself.

Unfortunately, that only gets us to Android 8 support, since that is the oldest version that supports adaptive icons. I can theoretically polyfil that with static icons for older versions at the expense of APK weight, but at the end of the day I have to draw the line somewhere. For a new app, Android 9 seems like a good trade off at >90% of devices supported according to https://apilevels.com at the time of writing, so this will probably stay as is for the time being, sorry.