Saying Goodbye to Android 2.3 Gingerbread
June 15, 2021 5 minute read
Almost exactly 2 years ago, with the release of v0.7.3, I announced that Shattered would be dropping support for Android 2.2 Froyo. Now, unfortunately, it’s time to say goodbye to more legacy Android versions.
v0.9.3 will be the last version of Shattered Pixel Dungeon to support Android 2.3 Gingerbread , and the less popular Android 3 Honeycomb . I’ll try to keep support for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich going as long as I can, but that one may be near the end of its support life as well.
Just like with Froyo, I wanted to write a little blog post to summarize why this is happening, and to reminisce a bit on these versions of Android from 2010 and 2011.1
Android 2.3 - 4.0 represents a period of major technical changes for the Android platform. Android 4.0 also brought a complete UI refresh called ‘holo’, which was the first time Android had a consistent visual design.
