On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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've said repeatedly that we won't be (intentionally) breaking old
applications.  Removing a major API like this would be a huge breakage.  It
won't happen.

I'm sorry that wasn't understood.

-- 
Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
[email protected]

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.

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