How do you make a call to a new Android Honeycomb sdk method without breaking backwards compatibility?

I am not worried about screen real estate. They have change开发者_开发问答d behavior and added new methods for tablet support. If I call one of these I assume that would cause a run-time failure for the older SDKs. Does this cause me to need a separate tablet version? This is the first time I have had to deal with this on Android and it wasn't clear to me what to do.

Documentation was incorrect and it worked. Don't know why I didn't think of reflection (doh!).

If those methods resides in some classes, which are not the part of pre-honeycomb SDK's you can try to use reflection to get (or not to in case of older devices) a honeycomb's class instance and call it's methods.

If you tell what methods/classes you are trying to use, i can try to make my answer more specific.