Recommended Minimum Android App SDK

Question

I am making an android app, and am wondering what the industry\'s thoughts are on supporting older android versions like GingerBread and FroYo. Should a developer like me take t

Answer 1

There were only few (~10) percent of users with Gingerbread to download our application from Play Store, so we have decided not to support it anymore. It was about 7 months ago. Froyo and Honeycomb are dead for much longer time.

We would go with Android 4.0 (API 14) as minimum for new projects. There is no real benefit from supporting older version unless you are forced to do so (client requested it, etc.).