There are several LTE devices that shipped with API <9 that you might want to support. You can still access any of the new values with earlier APIs; just use the constant values instead of the variable name. You could refer to all network types with their values if you wished.
For example, if you are looking to use NETWORK_TYPE_LTE
, use the value 13
instead. Here are the values implemented after API 8:
NETWORK_TYPE_EVDO_B
: 12NETWORK_TYPE_LTE
: 13NETWORK_TYPE_EHRPD
: 14NETWORK_TYPE_HSPAP
: 15
This link has the full list.