Is there any kind of conditional compiling for Android?
I had to make my project for Android 3 (API 11) just because ExifInterface has almost no useful attributes in Android 2.3 (API 10), despite the fact that it appeared in API 5 (!!??). I don't want to restrict my app to ICS users.
You can check dynamically the current API version of the device and do different stuff depending on that:
if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 14) {
// Crappy stuff for old devices
}
else {
// Do awesome stuff on ICS
}
But be careful that if you need to instantiate classes that are not available for all APIs then you should do it in a runnable or in a separate wrapper class, e.g:
if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 14) {
// Crappy stuff for old devices
}
else {
// Do awesome stuff on ICS
new Runnable() {
new AmazingClassAvailableOnICS();
(...)
}.run();
}