It's now called the support library in the SDK manager (at least after you upgrade to rev4)
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:05 PM, ashughes <ashug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Dianne for the explanation. I forgot that that was the reason > ActionBarSherlock is a library project and not a jar (the resource > problem). > > FYI, it's still called the "Android Compatibility package" in the > Android SDK Manager. I understand your reasoning for it being called > the "support library" however. > > On Oct 24, 2:32 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: >> 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....). >> > 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 > -- 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 "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
