backwards-compatibility

I am now advanced in developing my 15-activities android app which is based on the latest API (15 ICS). Now I discovered that main functionalists of the app is NOT backward compatible even with the android v4 support such as: 1-fragmentTransaction animation 2-the ability to putStringSet in sharedPref 3-having mapActivity using fragments I thought about making a second version for the older OS's of EACH class that has incompatibility issues (which are around 10) so I use them if I detect that the device running the app is old. However, I am sure this is a stupid way and there is a better way of

I have to built a project in Symbian. I am having and confusion and had some question related to Symbian version. What is the difference between Symbian^3 , S60 3rd edition and S60 5th edition ? Is there any major difference as coding point of view with Symbian^3, S60 3rd edition, S60 5th edition? Does the code built in S60 3rd edition will work in S60 5th edition or code built in Sybmian^3 will work in S60 3rd edition, S60 5th edition or vice versa? Which IDE do we have to use for Symbian^3, S60 3rd edition, S60 5th edition? Which language does we have to use for coding in Symbian^3, S60 3rd

Our organization is planning to upgrade its most of the oracle servers & clients to 11g Release 2. But one of our client system is still using oracle 8i installation. Can we able to access the objects of Oracle 8i from oracle 11g client? Some blogs says that it should work and other say it won't. Can anybody faced any issue with such configuration. One of the senior dba told us that oracle only supports backward compatibility of 2 versions earlier to current version. Assuming this fact we shouldn't been able to access database objects running on oracle version 8. Kindly help. Thanks in advance

I want to start learning to work with Fragments and I want to install the Compatibility package for pre 3.0 versions of Android. However, I can't seem to find this package on the SDK manager. Here's everything I see: Also, I want to install Action Bar Sherlock to work with Action Bars. On the ACS website it says "If you’re using the Eclipse Development Environment with the ADT plugin version 0.9.7 or greater you can include this as a library project" - how do I include library projects? Thanks It's called the Android Support Package . Referencing Library Projects Assuming you're using Eclipse,

I have built android app with supporting android:minSdkVersion="7" android:targetSdkVersion="15" . I use my customized theme inheriting Android default theme. so now i want to change whole application theme to Holo theme.Can any one help me on this. Bannane You can implement a "style selector" by using different style XMLs. Just define a theme named "StyleSelector" or something like that in /res/**values**/styles.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <style name="ThemeSelector" parent="@android:style/Theme.Black"> ... Your theme definitions </style> </resources> Then create

I want to create an application that will target old Android platforms (>= 2.x). I found the ActionBarSherlock that allows building action bars in an ICS style. But, when I read its FAQ , I found that I have to compile my project with the API level 14 (4.0 : ICS) and target the API level 11 in my manifest (3.0 : Honeycomb). So, my question is : how can I target the 2.x versions with ActionBarSherlock? This is a very common question and the answer is relatively simple. Just because you target 4.0 does not mean it will not run on earlier versions. In your manifest you need to add the following: