Dianne, with all due respect, I'm with Mark on this one. The only reasonable thing for a developer to do at this point is abandon the deprecated classes as quickly as possible. Google's track record with Android releases proves that they can and will spin on a dime without giving much notice as to where Android is headed. I'm a little surprised at the lack of empathy shown developers when it comes to release time windows.
By the way, it's the developers of Android apps and games that makes the Android platform a viable one, is it not? Regards, - Mike On May 4, 1:36 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > Dianne Hackborn wrote: > > DidAbsoluteLayoutdisappear 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. > > AbsoluteLayoutis 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 untilAbsoluteLayouttotally 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), andAbsoluteLayoutwill 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 > timeAbsoluteLayoutmight 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 removesAbsoluteLayoutbefore 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
