Chapter 20
Testing Your Apps
In This Chapter
• Reviewing the Android device diversity
• Developing a test plan
• Testing SDK versions in the emulator
• Understanding backward and forward compatibility
Every few years Microsoft or Apple releases a new version of its operating systems. The market suddenly divides between users of new computers that now ship with the new version of the OS and everyone else. The developer tension then arises: continue to provide backwards compatibility with the older OS or jump aboard the new OS with its latest and greatest features.
The pace of Android development is considerably faster. Android OS 1.0 was released in October 2008, and major OS updates are released every four to five months. With 200,000 Android devices ...
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