Applications and ICS

[gsampl4]

With the (hopefully) upcoming release of the Galaxy Nexus I had a question about applications. I am coming from an HTC Eris (LOL I know.. I know) so I have never had the experience of going from an older phone OS to a brand new version. With the applications in the market place I am assuming they will have to be updated/recompiled before they will work with ICS. Is that correct? If so will there be any indications that say such and such application is compatible with Android 4.x? Or am I looking into this too far? Also I appreciate the sticky listing of Let's get an app list going... since there is so many applications in there that I could have never run on the Eris in the first place LOL. Do you know if people will start posting a listing of applications that work or have known bugs with ICS? There are a lot of new apps (to me) that I would like to try but it would be nice to know if they worked or not first. Thanks.

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

Most apps will run like business as usual. Some may not be "optimized" still, but most should work. From what I hear, the Facebook app looks weird. It will take more getting used to the "Menu" button in its different possible locations.

 

[CynicX]

Current apps should work with ICS.....

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

Current apps should work with ICS.....

Should... but some don't.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.facebook.katana&hl=en

 

[gsampl4]

Thanks for the responses. Coming from IT I should have known better when I bought my first phone. With the HTC I knew 18 months ago that Google was making some really good phones. (Had an HTC Windows Mobile 6.5 before if I remember correctly) But with it I just walked into VZ and looked at all the Google phones and picked the Eris because I though the screen looked decent and it was priced right... LOL now with this phone I have been following AC since about April once I found out we could upgrade in November. I originally was following all I could on the SGSII until that got dropped and I have been following this one ever since. I planned on doing my research right this time around... which has been both fun, entertaining, and maddening at times...