[aerogear-dev] Android target and min SDK numbers

Following a spirited discussion on the IRC channel we have come up with the following arguments for and against several minimum versions of Android which we will support for 1.0 android-7 Éclair For: The TODO app currently compiles and runs on it Against: Older than cyber dirt. Relies on some deprecated HTTP Cient APIs More testing for not much more gain in market android -8 Froyo For: We agreed on it before. Gains us 15% of Android Play users Against: Still uses deprecated http libraries. Lose out on some of the nicer things in Gingerbread Can lower our minimum version in 1.0.1 if it passes QA Old as cyber dirt android-10 Gingerbread For: Majority of Android users still use this Lots of good API's "Default" version for many Android developers Minimum version that the supported http libraries support Against: We lose the users from Froyo We agreed on Froyo before The library doesn't strictly need it. My vote is for 10 with an eye to lower it to 8 shortly after 1.0 is released. This limits the number of platforms we have to test on to get this out the door and doesn't affect our developers that much.