Top "Backwards-compatibility" questions

Backward compatibility refers to a software or hardware system that can successfully use interfaces and data from earlier versions of the system.

Apply backgroundTint to background drawable for API 19

The backgroundTint is correctly applied on API 23, but not on API 19. How can I get the drawable tinted for API 19 …

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What is Backwards Compatibility in Android Studio?

I'm a newbie to Android Development. Even though I referred the android developer website, I didn't figure out. On the …

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Replacing fragments and orientation change

I'm developing an Android application targeting 2.x and 3.0 devices and thus I'm using the compatibilty API. I'm testing on Android 2.0. …

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API design ensuring backward compatibility

Are there any best practices to keep in mind while designing API's which ensures backward compatibility and new version releases. …

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Backwards compatibility and Web Services

So I'm a bit new to web services and a situation recently came up where we added an element to …

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Are android apps backwards compatible?

Should I build an app that targets Android 2.2 and release it on the Android Marketplace; Would the app be available …

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Best practices for versioning your services with WCF?

I'm starting to work with my model almost exclusively in WCF and wanted to get some practical approaches to versioning …

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PHP date_parse_from_format( ) alternative in PHP 5.2

Since date_parse_from_format( ) is available only in PHP 5.3, I need to write a function that mimics its behaviour …

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confusion of how to make osx app backward compatible & how to test them

after reading the apple SDK guide https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/developertools/conceptual/cross_development/Overview/overview.html …

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Ambiguous use of operator "+"

So I have this little algorithm in my Xcode project and it no longer works - it's telling me that …

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