Poll: still using 3.x? Let me know!

Upload Service 4 development started last year’s summer. Now it reached 4.3.0. Many major improvements have been made: new features, better stability, security, maintainability, ease of customization, less error-prone code to write.

However, when I looked at the statistics of the latest 10 releases in the past 30 days:

74% of the user base is still on 3.x, so 4.x where all my efforts have been concentrated, still fails to reach the majority of users.

If you are a 3.x user, comment and let me know what prevents you to upgrade to 4.x

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• 😕for current minApi of your Apps tied to API < 21

[Sdghasemi]

Thanks for the effort but we’re still using 3.5.2 with a min SDK version override to 17. The min SDK version is preventing us to upgrade I’m afraid.

[gotev]

@Sdghasemi that’s huge, I fully understand your current decision. Added a reaction option for you to vote. Tough times ahead of us, the future is unpredictable, but if I have you and other library users which are stuck in the same situation onboard, we can together make an api17-backport branch from current 4.3.0 and make PRs there, with the goal to have a fully functional new version suitable also for old devices. This means downgrading a bunch of dependencies (e.g. OkHttp) and implementing some compat functions to deal with old APIs. This should be a win-win for both developers and end users. @elena-p I remembered your request in #449 and I’m ready to change my decision if you want to contribute.

Let me know if you’re interested in this proposal. I can’t make it alone for lack of time and test devices, but together I’m sure it’s possible. Open to other ideas, too.