Dianne Hackborn wrote: > Did AbsoluteLayout disappear from 1.5? No. Are you unable to write 1.5 > apps using it? No. Have we ever said we have any plan to completely > remove it at any point in the future? No.
AbsoluteLayout is flagged as deprecated in Android 1.5. As far as we out here are concerned, that means we gotta abandon the class or clone and maintain our own copy, and do either of those very very quickly. Why? Because there's no visibility into Android releases. We received a 1.5 preview edition ~3 weeks before devices started shipping incorporating 1.5. That's not enough time to do a proper rewrite, so we can't wait until AbsoluteLayout totally vanishes...which it could do at any time. For all we know, Android 1.6 will be released next week (after all, I'm traveling again), and AbsoluteLayout will be purged from the OS. Now, if Android operated under Symbian-esque or Ubuntu-ish release schedules, we would at least know the earliest possible time AbsoluteLayout might vanish. And if the community were somehow involved in the actual discussions on decisions like this, we might even be able to find out if any given release removes AbsoluteLayout before the release flies over the wall. Give us transparency, and we in the community can better help ease concerns over deprecation. Without transparency, please do not complain when the community feels it has to rush around to deal with deprecation. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android App Developer Training: http://commonsware.com/training.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
