On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Mark Carter <mjc1...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> As a test, building against SDK 9, I compiled an APK referencing > @android:drawable/presence_video_away which was introduced in SDK 9. > > Then I ran the APK on a SDK 4 emulator and got an exception indicating > resource not found (as above). However, it referenced a seemingly > random resource (one defined in the APK). This problem was raised > here 8 months ago: > This isn't really a problem; it is working as intended. You are using something from a newer platform that doesn't exist on an older platform. What do you expect to happen when you run on the older platform? The older platform never knew what this thing was. It turns out that there are a lot of drawables in the platform that aren't in the SDK, so you are using a larger resource number than what was publicly defined in the older platform, ending up with (pretty randomly) one of its private drawables. If you are using new APIs and trying to run on an older platform, you just need to make sure that you don't try to use them when on the older platform. This applies to Java APIs as well as resources. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
