1023972 - Search and Fennec should support the same SDK levels

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Search Activity, defect)

Description

[Eric Edens [:eedens]]

Search activity supports SDK 14, and uses SDK 19 to build.  To match Fennec, we need to support SDK 8 and build with SDK 17.

Comment 1

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Just to clarify, given there is no Google-now on Gingerbread, we don't need to support this Search Activity there do we?

Comment 2

[:Margaret Leibovic]

Theoretically we could find another way to launch the search activity on devices that don't have that swipe-up action (another launcher icon maybe?), but I would be okay with us making the search activity an ICS+ feature, especially if it makes development easier.

Comment 3

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

My firm opinion: no big new features on legacy platforms.

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

The lack of a "slide up" trigger is not enough to stop Gingerbread support. We plan to have a simple homescreen widget which just launches the activity.

So we should support Gingerbread until we find something that makes it not possible.

Comment 5

[Eric Edens [:eedens]]

https://github.com/ericedens/FirefoxSearch/commit/c6c343bcee77377d50ad2cbc58f94458f988baea

This was resolved in our transition away from the prototype when Nick setup the build system.