Support for minSdkVersion 17? about dd-sdk-android HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi @ehrlichja, our target compatibility was set to API 19 (released 7 years ago, and compatible with more than 98% of all the devices out there).

After a really quick test, it appears that indeed using the library as is will indeed crash on a device running Android 17. We'll check if lowering our SDK compatibility is possible, and we'll get back to you.

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When I tried doing that, I got a couple of crashes, so I wouldn't advise on doing that blindly in your application. The safest way would be to fork the project and compile it with minSdk=17 and make sure the Android Lint detect all potential issues.

Also try using the Datadog.setVerbosity() method to get information about any potential issue in the logcat.

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Fingers crossed

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Hi @ehrlichja , I'm really sorry, but unfortunately, we don't have the resources and time to support such an old version of Android for our SDK right now, and so we won't be lowering our support to version 17.
But since all our code is open sourced, you can make your own fork to add the support to old versions of Android.

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Thanks for checking! Do you forsee any problems with using <uses-sdk tools:overrideLibrary="com.datadog.android"/>? I ran it and didn't get any runtime errors, but also didn't see any log messages in datadog.

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