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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

