TLS v1.2 for KitKat (and below?)

[goldfndr]

With GitHub having removed support for TLS v1.0 and v1.1, ForkHub no longer works, it gives an error toast (Loading account & organizations failed).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28943660/how-to-enable-tls-1-2-support-in-an-android-application-running-on-android-4-1 shows how to enable TLS v1.2 support for pre-Lollipop. There must be something working, since I can access GitHub on both Chrome Mobile and Lightning Browser.

In the meantime, if anyone can direct me to how to get the "News" look for an arbitrary repo via web browser, I'd appreciate it. The closest I can find is Insights, but that doesn't list individual comments.

[ghost]

square/okhttp#2372 may be instructive here.

[truedat101]

Noting also, this affects the version of Forkhub found in the Blackberry World App store, which is an Android app, I think maybe v1.2.0 (tagged release of apk), and the Android runtime provided in BB10 is 4.x era. It was a sad day when I opened the app and found that I couldn't get in. I will give a compliment, and say this is THE best performing Android app in terms of speed that I've found on the Blackberry BB10 platform.

[truedat101]

I'm willing to dig in here and help find a work around, maybe submit a pull request, since I don't have the option to upgrade my Android runtime, and find Forkhub to be essential to my daily work and my ability to be away from my desk but deal with the number of projects and companies I work with that have their stuff on GH.

[truedat101]

I'll spend some time looking through the referenced okhttp issue, as there seem to be 15 other projects depending on okhttp who are committed to support Android < 5.x, and have provided solutions. Since the problem affect 4.x-4.4 and since the min api version has been bumped to 19 for this app, to continue to maintain backward compatibility is a train that has already left the station. At the very least, this can get fixed for KitKat, and I will make a fork that is off the older code (unless the bump of minsdkversion to api 19 was done for cosmetic reasons ... it was on 8 up to the 1.2.2 tag). In any case, I'd like to fix this for myself also, I'm stuck on api 18. Will dig into this during the upcoming week.