Following table is the summary of different Android versions and major improvements in a specific version. Although developers has choice of choosing the best version, most of the time the decision to support a certain target should normally not be based on which API you want to use, but instead on what market you are trying to reach.
Here is a snapshot of each version and its market share from google.
if our target is primarily tablets and not cell phones, then we should target
Honeycomb. Honeycomb represents only about 2.4% as of this post date, and not all tablets support Honeycomb.
Here is some more information Barnes & Noble’s Nook uses android 2.2, Amazon kindle fire uses Android 2.3, so supporting older versions makes sence, because when we see the pie, more than 60% of devices still use Android 2.3.3
And finally here is the screen resolution chart.
Here is a snapshot of each version and its market share from google.
if our target is primarily tablets and not cell phones, then we should target
Honeycomb. Honeycomb represents only about 2.4% as of this post date, and not all tablets support Honeycomb.
Here is some more information Barnes & Noble’s Nook uses android 2.2, Amazon kindle fire uses Android 2.3, so supporting older versions makes sence, because when we see the pie, more than 60% of devices still use Android 2.3.3
And finally here is the screen resolution chart.
