Ionic 2 APP won't run in earlier than Android 5.0?

@fel486 It seems that 4.1 might be not supported (reason: it’s really hard to support those older Android webviews and still have good performance) but this could be solved by using crosswalk (as you can read here, here, here, here, etc).

And here is an official response on the topic (check out the linked topic for more details and stats):

Also it’s very misleading to claim that Ionic won’t run on Android older than 5.0 when ~33% of the devices are with Android 4.4 which is supported by Ionic - check out the Android Developer Dashboards and you will see that:

  • ~74% of the devices run Android 4.4 or later - supported by Ionic.
  • ~21% of the devices run Android 4.1 - 4.3 - it’s recommended to use Crosswalk (even if there versions are supported by Ionic I guess that it the performance would be so poor that the apps will be barely usable).
  • ~5% of the devices run Android 4.0 or older - not officially supported by Ionic (but I guess that half of them might be supported by using crosswalk).

If you’re having problems to integrate crosswalk into you project you could search the forum or if something is not working as expected then open an issue with details about your problem.

Moreover the Ionic framework is an open-source project, which means that if something is not working in your case you can try to fix it and make a PR.

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