I recently updated my FlashLight application to 1.2 on Android Market. The new version supports the changes that Google made to the SDK for application brightness control. Unfortunately, this update has put me in a catch 22.

Either I update the application with the new SDK calls and get it working on Android 1.5, and break it for all Android 1.x devices. Or, I don’t update the application, and everyone who gets the Android 1.5 upgrade this month will have a broken application.

I decided to update the application now with cupcake support. If you already have the application installed, it will continue to work and the upgrade will fail. If you get the Android 1.5 update, the update will work fine and the FlashLight will work.

In Case You Don’t Have Or Delete Old FlashLight

The down side is, anyone who does not already have the application and does not have the Android 1.5 update will not be able to install FlashLight from Android market. For those people, I am providing the APK file for you to download here.

Note: To be able to download, use your Android phone with a WiFi connection and be sure to have enabled “Unknown Sources” on your Android device at: Home > Settings > Applications