The Sonoran Gardener app for Android API 16 and up. This is an MVP of the Sonoran Gardener app (see development status updates at http://blog.sonorangardener.com). Sonoran Gardener is a pilot project for The Pineapple Project (http://www.ThePineappleProject.org).
- Going to try out the new Material Design elements introduced with Android 5.0 Lollipop (API 21) for this app, using the v7 library compatibility for earlier versions of Android.
- The target devices for this app are expected to be relatively new as most users have service plans that keep their handsets/tablets up-to-date, so the Min SDK was selected to be API 16 (Android 4.1 Jelly Bean). API 16 introduced a number of new libraries to Android, so it makes a good baseline and the Android dashboard (http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/) states that API 16 will support 85.1% of the devices currently active on Google servers.
The following sources were referenced during the development of this app (Note that if a specific code fragment was used/modified for the app, it is referenced in the comments in the code):
- Android Developers (http://developer.android.com)
- Udacity Developing Android Apps course, ud853 (http://www.udacity.com)