I'm talking about SDK now, at the moment I'm interested in adding this attribute but I want to be sure that I will not have any problems with android 1.6.
In the docs is written that previous version of android simply skip the attribute, but I just wanted to have a confirmation of people who tryed building level 4 apps using level 8 SDK. On Apr 15, 2:30 pm, Marcin Orlowski <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 April 2011 13:13, sblantipodi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Ok, so you got the real reason :) In this case you have to use higher SDK > > as > > > I am not aware of any other trick you could use for Manifest to add new > > > attribute and still be able to build against older SDK. > > > I have the real reason yes but if this reason will "damage" backward > > compatibility. I will prefer to forget this real reason. > > No it won't. At least I do not see the chance assuming you will to do what > you wrote you plan only. > > You are talking about obfuscation now or about compiling with SDK > > > Level 8 and maintain compatibility with Level 4? > > Obfuscation got nothing to do with SDK level and got nothing to do with > Android at all. It's matter of obfuscating *Java* bytecode. So if you target > android you have to add ProGuard (or other obfuscator of choice) in your > build (or rather publishing, to save time) process. ProGuard is not > android-only tool, nor Eclipse dependant. You simply needs to hand it > compiler output to chew and then hand its output further to produce dalvik > compatible bytecode. > > Regards, > Marcin Orlowski > > *Tray Agenda <http://bit.ly/trayagenda>* - keep you daily schedule handy... > *Date In Tray* <http://bit.ly/dateintraypro> - current date at glance... > WebnetMobile on *Facebook <http://webnetmobile.com/fb/>* and > *Twitter<http://webnetmobile.com/twitter/> > * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
