App breakage?

[Milo Willamson]

I just seen into another thread of app breakage over a phone more then three years,
I am getting my head wrapped around it, so when and if I do consider of getting a brand new phone due to app breakage, wouldn't it seem more different and aimed at the right target? Or should I just keep my moto z2 force? It just softwear updated itself eariler last evening.

 

[svim]

Could you explain in more detail just what is 'app breakage'? Haven't ran across that phrase before.

 

[mikedt]

By "app breakage" I guess you mean when an app or game no longer works, or has issues on new updated Android versions. Which is usually legacy, abandoned, and discontinued apps, that are no longer supported by their devs.

But then computer software is sometimes like that, unless it's open source, where someone else might take it over.

 

[Milo Willamson]

Could you explain in more detail just what is 'app breakage'? Haven't ran across that phrase before.

What Mike said above, thinking that they could be so breakable like any other media is it out there, you can bend it to whatever and it does not seem the right shape anymore. Like can my apps be seperated by the coding, or will they hold into forever and have just updates with it?

 

[svim]

Haven't run into that kind of situation before. Still cannot find any definitive references for 'app breakage' online. Please post anything you have referring to it, and that thread you originally mentioned.

 

[Hadron]

Well Milo did say that it was what Mike described, which is simply old apps not being compatible with newer operating systems. Which I've met a few times, though I've also got apps that haven't been updated for 8 years and work fine on Android 10. It will be things like what API calls they use: if the app relies on something that's deprecated it will stop working. Nothing you can do about it apart from stick with an old OS (and then find you can't install newer apps) or find alternative apps. This happens all the time with all computers.

That said, I am relying on Mike's post for the understanding.

 

[Milo Willamson]

Well Milo did say that it was what Mike described, which is simply old apps not being compatible with newer operating systems. Which I've met a few times, though I've also got apps that haven't been updated for 8 years and work fine on Android 10. It will be things like what API calls they use: if the app relies on something that's deprecated it will stop working. Nothing you can do about it apart from stick with an old OS (and then find you can't install newer apps) or find alternative apps. This happens all the time with all computers.

That said, I am relying on Mike's post for the understanding.

Thanks, I was wondering that of where the limitation is of stopping and starting up apps
I think my comp is around six years old.