BREAKING CHANGES coming up

[brody4hire]

updated:

• Android pre-5.1 support including deprecated armeabi target (superseded by armeabi-v7a, seems to be not supported by Android 5.0) to be dropped as I had proposed in Ending support for old Android versions #771, for the following reasons:
  • Apache Cordova is now getting ready to drop Android 4.x and 5.0 support as already agreed in this discussion on the mailing list and proposed in this PR: Bump minSdkVersion to 22 and drop pre-Lollipop specific code apache/cordova-android#915
  • alleviate the burden of testing on extra-old armeabi target CPU
• error code will always be 0 (Error code member going away #821; was part of Major release with possible enhancements & breaking changes #773)
• extra-old location numeric values of 0, 1, and 2 will be rejected; must use location: 'default' or iosDatabaseLocation setting as documented (was part of Major release with possible enhancements & breaking changes #773)
• throw an exception in case of androidDatabaseImplementation: 2 setting which is now superseded by androidDatabaseProvider: 'system' setting
• throw an exception in case of any options not supported by this plugin version such as key or createFromLocation is used

under consideration:

• Is androidLockWorkaround option still needed? #925 - discuss and consider removing androidLockWorkaround option if it is not needed by the user community any longer

other:

• Loose ends #926 - tracking loose ends from minor and major release items that had been planned back in 2017 and 2018