How to handle build API version > minSdkVersion?
<p>my app has minSdkVersion = 8, targetSdkVersion = 15 and SDK build version = 8. In general it works well, including on ICS but I would like to provide few more features to ICS users, for example resizeable widgets. This requires increasing also the SDK build version to 15.</p>

<p>I am concerned about the API static safety. For example if I will use unintentionally an API features that is not available on old phones.</p>

<p>What are good practices to handle SDK build version > minSdkVersion? How can I verify before shipping a new version that it does not break on old phones? What are good practices to address it?</p>
