On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, ashughes <ashug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is now an ActionBarCompat sample code demo ( > http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ActionBarCompat/index.html). > Is there a reason the ActionBar not been added to the ACL? Are there any > plans to add it to the ACL? No, nothing like this will appear in the support library any time soon. An ActionBar implementation requires significant resources to go with it (drawables, layouts, attributes, etc), and at this point it is not feasible to package that kind of stuff up into a jar. Even if we make it possible to have resources in a har -- and that is something that may happen in the not so long term -- you wouldn't want to do this with the support lib unless you also had a tool to strip all of that stuff out for apps that aren't using it... and *that* is a big enough amount of work that it probably isn't worth doing any time soon. Oh and btw, as far as I am concerned it is totally wrong to call this the "compatibility library." The library is called the "support library," because that is what it actually use -- various useful support classes. There is a fair amount there that helps with using newer platform APIs while still being able to run on older platform versions, but there is a lot of other stuff there as well. In particular, ViewPager. -- 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
