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2 months ago

Building CIQ 5 devices (e.g. fr955) in SDK 4.2.4 results in error claiming "SDK 5.0.0 or greater" is required - shouldn't this be SDK 7.1.0?

Example of error message:

ERROR: Device 'fr965' requires an SDK version of 5.0.0 or greater to be compiled. The current SDK version is 4.2.4. Update your SDK using the Connect IQ SDK Manager.

This doesn't make sense to me because:

- There was no SDK 5.x. Afaik, SDK versions went directly from 4.2.4 to 6.2.0

- SDK 7.1.0 is the first SDK to support CIQ 5.0.0

It seems that the minimum SDK for CIQ 5 devices should actually be 7.1.0

Currently an older SDK such as 6.4.2 (or anything less than 7.1.0) can currently be used to build CIQ 5 devices. If my statement above is correct, then this behavior is wrong.

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  • 2 months ago

    Can't speak for anyone else, but in the past I've purposely built with older SDKs when I update an app (including when I add support for new devices), to avoid possible code bloat for data fields which are tight on memory (especially for older devices which usually can't benefit from any improvements in the SDK).

    So I don't think we can just assume people will only use new SDKs or 7.* SDKs when building for new devices. And if we could assume that, there would be no need for the SDK version check in the first place, right?

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  • 2 months ago

    Can't speak for anyone else, but in the past I've purposely built with older SDKs when I update an app (including when I add support for new devices), to avoid possible code bloat for data fields which are tight on memory (especially for older devices which usually can't benefit from any improvements in the SDK).

    So I don't think we can just assume people will only use new SDKs or 7.* SDKs when building for new devices. And if we could assume that, there would be no need for the SDK version check in the first place, right?

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