On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Because we are sometimes dumb. That is why it is deprecated and replaced > with a method named getRotation() in current versions of the platform. > > A nice person spent a long time harassing me about this change because they > insistent that we were evil vile losers who didn't understand what app > developers needed by deprecating the getOrientation() method. I never > figured out exactly what was motivating all of that. But if that person is > reading: this is why. :)
>From where I sit Android is becoming really hard to keep up with. I have a ton of 2.1 users still so I need to stay with API version 7. The current API is 13, that's almost double the version I need to stay at. I can't force people to upgrade or buy a new phone. Meanwhile the SDK docs show more and more "non documentation" for API version 7 every day due the continuing deprecation. What's a developer to do? -- Greg Donald -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
