Android - legacy to native migraton considerations

Hi there,
We have a v29 Android app we'd like to migrate to the native viewer. This page Digital Publishing Suite Help | Building native DPS apps for Android devices highlights two points:
- legacy settings/downloads won't persist
- legacy folios aren't removed when the app is updated on an Android device
Presumably the second point means that old folios will remain on a user's device, taking up storage, but will be unavailable to the app, is that right? Will content authored for the old viewer work in a native Android app?
I just wondered if there's anything else to consider? In terms of building the native app should we use a different Adobe ID to that used for the legacy viewer, so we can get optimised content to people who download it? Anything else?
Thanks,
Toby

The content authored for the legacy viewer will render fine in the new native viewer, with a handful of exceptions that are documented on our supported features page. Unless you make use of HTML articles, dual orientation folios, or audio overlays you should be fine with our current release of the native viewer.
I don't recommend using a different adobe ID, that's just more overhead for your production flow. If your content looks good in your native app then you're fine. If it doesn't, and it isn't a problem due to the three things I mentioned above, then post in the forum since it's a bug.
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