per Dianne H on Google+: "...These are not part of the platform, they are helper classes in the support library, so they are not documented as part of the platform API documentation. The full source code is available as part of the package, and there are also full samples of using them in the new v4 and v13 API demos apps: http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/Support4Demos/src/com/example/android/supportv4/app/index.html and http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/Support13Demos/src/com/example/android/supportv13/app/index.html (look for Fragment Pager, Fragment State Pager, Fragment Tabs Pager, Action Bar Tabs Pager)."
So if I read that right, even if they are not part of the Android 3.2 SDK 'proper' someone must have thought them so cool they just had to include them in the ACL. Given my reliance on MapView for my app I decided to stay away from the ACL for the time being (feel free to pop that into the ACL btw Google - it's not in the SDK either). And by coincidence I just finished shoehorning all the 3.1 SDK ActionBar goodness into my single source codebase yesterday, so it will be a while before I'll be ready for 3.2. I'm very happy that you are blazing the trail though, Mr M. Keep up the good work. Nick On Jul 15, 7:04 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > Up until 3 minutes ago, I was fairly clear on the role of the Android > Compatibility Library (ACL) -- it was to provide backwards-compatible > clones of stuff that exist "for realz" only in newer versions of > Android. > > However, Roman Nurik just tweeted: > > "ViewPager and PagerAdapter are in the Compatibility Package r3 as > part of the Android 3.2 SDK release" > > pointing to: > > http://developer.android.com/sdk/compatibility-library.html > > ViewPager, PagerAdapter, and kin are classes *presently unique to the ACL*. > > I couch that with "presently" as, for all we know, those classes could > show up in a yet future version of Android, and they were added to the > ACL now because, ummm, they stowed away on the release or something. > > Does anyone out there with greater insight into the ACL have a clearer > explanation of its role, in light of these ACL-only classes? > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Training...At Your Office:http://commonsware.com/training -- 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
