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Chat API Demo Application for Android
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Library min sdk support #66

Closed kristiyanP closed 6 years ago

kristiyanP commented 6 years ago

Description

In our use-case (B2B) we need to support api16+.

The current programmable-chat v3.1.1 supports api19+ taking away 3,8% of our user base.

We have checked the release candidate v4.0.0-rc12 which seems to support from api21+ which will take away a total of 11,6% of our user base!!

Important

Please keep into account that a 10% of android market share is a huge percentage! And because our target is B2B which requires huge support that makes a BIG difference for us.

Question

Is there a reason for this insane support? Can we do something to support older api?

P.s. We have checked and on the emulator api17 looks stable while on emulator api16 keeps crashing natively because of a ssl error.

berkus commented 6 years ago

API 19 has always been the minimum, on arm64 devices API 21 is probably the reasonable minimum because there are no older arm64 devices anyway.

Contact us through the support portal and we can discuss the possibility of a special API 16 build.

kristiyanP commented 6 years ago

I don't think the architecture has anything to do with it... as the test has been executed on the same architecture but different sdk versions.

Thank you I will submit a ticket with the request for a lower minSdk build.

sschendel commented 5 years ago

Can you help clarify the reason SDK requires a minSdk of 21?

berkus commented 5 years ago

C++17 support. It could and have been running with API 19 as well, although somewhat unofficially.