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Jellybean (4.2)

Jellybean (4.1)

22%

Ice-cream Sandwich (4.0)

12%

Honeycomb (3.x)

Gingerbread (2.3.3+)

10%

Gingerbread (2.3.0 - 2.3.2)

Froyo (2.2)

I have an iPhone/Nokia/Blackberry/etc

45%

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Android devices and climbers 5-Apr-2013 At 1:10:37 PM Cam McKenzie

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On 4/04/2013 ajfclark wrote:
>On 3/04/2013 Cam McKenzie wrote:
>>What are you working on Mr Clark?
>
>Porting Superstu's Sydney Guide at the moment.
>
>
>On 4/04/2013 barney800 wrote:
>>I only have 50 MB of internal storage but a removable SD card (currently
>2 GB) so as long as apps don't insist on using internal storage it's not
>a problem.
>
>Yeah, one of my test devices has this arrangement and for a guidebook
>it's very problematic. I could produce a small version with no images
>that'd fit easily, but I'm not sure how useful that'd be.
>
>Another option might be to download the images (~175mb at the moment)
>the first time the app runs and store them on the SD, but there's no way
>to guarantee that the user won't remove the SD card or delete some or all
>of the files, etc.
>
>Not quite sure what to do about this one.

Doesn't the app have to run on internal storage (or on the non removal USB storage)? I thought that you couldn't transfer apps to run off an external SD.

Anyway, I would have thought that people with a phone with 50MB of internal memory would be in a pretty small minority. Handling all of these weird edge cases for old devices is one of the reasons that developing for Android is a bit of a pain (let alone all the different screen sizes and resolutions).