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by shimi 5010 days ago
"Or the API changes in Android?" At least Google releases the support library to overcome that
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vetinari 5010 days ago
The support library allows you to use features of newer system releases on older systems. See also GDI+ for Win98/NT4 or Windows feature packs for example.

The API changing game is another problem - it does not allow you to use existing application with newer system. As far as I know, this does not happen on Android (for now).

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pjmlp 5010 days ago
There already a few deprecated API, which so far have not be removed, but until when?
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pjmlp 5010 days ago
Really?!

That is why you have to import android.support.* versus android.app. Which forces you to have some form of preprocessing in the Java code.

Plus the API for the action bar is still missing from the support library.

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