On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Kaushik Gopal <[email protected]> wrote:
> I use Android Studio solely for building my app. Traditionally, I've been > aggressive about my updates to Android Studio because gradle allows me to > divorce my build+release process from the IDE. > > The latests Android Studio Beta release 0.8.+ is clearly aimed at helping > developers out with Android-L. There are some changes that make this a > little difficult now: > > 1. minsdk required to be 20. This has been discussed largely and i found a > thread > http://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/297xli/howto_use_the_v21_support_libs_on_older_versions/ > that > I believe, would help me to target older versions. > I'm not sure what you mean there. If you develop for L, then yes your minSdkVersion will be forced to 'L' (not 20). However if you don't, there will be no changes for you. > 2. I currently use the v13 support library (since i support a minsdk > version of 14+), so this cuts down on a lot of additional stuff that i > don't require from the v4 & v7 support libraries (hello 64k method limit). > But there doesn't exist a v13 library compatible with Android-L (yet) > > You don't have to use the preview of version 21 of the support libs. Just use 20 or 19.x and you'll be fine. > So I guess, here's my question: Is the expectation that we wait until > Android-L is released, before we update Android Studio, or can we expect to > safely update to Android Studio 0.8.+ right now and expect to continue and > release our apps in the interim to the play store targeting KitKat. > > If you don't care about L, you can upgrade. > Cheers. > > > P.S: The demos for AS from Google I/O look really snazzy and the > temptation to update is very strong. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "adt-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Xavier Ducrohet Android SDK Tech Lead Google Inc. http://developer.android.com | http://tools.android.com Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "adt-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
