I’ve said time and time again to developers that as long as the compatibility library supported 1.6 then so would I. While the next post will talk about the trials and tribulations of dealing with having a library which extends (and effectively replaces) the official compat lib, all we need to know for now is that the core library will now have zero dependencies. Since the library is no longer immediately dependent on the compatibility library my justification for forcing support for Android 1.6 is no longer there.