Upgrade default API Level to 16

[guersam]

I'm trying to merge support-v4 package into this repo using SBT's multiple project feature to provide consistent Scaloid API.

Unfortunately, current supported API level is 8 only which causes when extracting support-v4-r7 classes due to that it requires Android 4.0.1.2 at least.

For 2.0 release, I suggest increasing API level to 16 and providing support-v4 in this repo because most famous third-party libraries support it.

[pocorall]

I chosen Android Lv8 because it covers 98 percent of activated devices.

To be accepted by wide range of Android developers, Scaloid should be run on most of the devices.

[guersam]

From Android developer guide:

Updates to the framework API are designed so that the new API remains compatible with earlier versions of the
API. That is, most changes in the API are additive and introduce new or replacement functionality. As parts of the
API are upgraded, the older replaced parts are deprecated but are not removed, so that existing applications can
still use them.

Usually using higher level of SDK doesn't prevent running on older devices. For example, even ActionbarSherlock uses platform version 4.0.1.2 for compilation (here's pom.xml) and it runs on my old GingerBread device.

My suggestion is as follows:

• Compile with reasonably recent SDK version.
• Keep Android dependency scope as 'provided'
• Macro-based workaround for backward compatibility (We can determine if given LayoutParams class has MATCH_PARENT in compile time)

Then we don't need to publish Scaloid 2.0_8, 2.0_16, or etc. simultaneously.

[pocorall]

OK, thank you for your good suggestion 👍

[placrosse]

+1 on this suggestion

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Sung-Ho Lee notifications@github.comwrote:

OK, thank you for your good suggestion [image: 👍]

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