Hi, Thanks for the quick response. I think that the jira issue AVRO-2863 summarizes the issues. When talking about android support it is also important to decide which android version you want to support. This is normally based on distribution statistics: https://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-android-sdk-versions There are two main problems. Classes which won't be implemented by android platform (like ClassValue) and APIs which are just implemented by later versions.
So when deciding that android is a platform which should be supported there are two options: 1. Not using classes which are not part of the android runtime (There are very few) 2. Create two flavors of the library. For example guava have guava android and guava jre. The first option is easier to handle but i am not sure what the impact on the product will be. The second option would (maybe) better for performance but be more complicate to handle. Besides this it is also important to decide for an avro library version what the minimal android version it supports. Regarding how to catch this stuff, this is a hard question. The only idea I have is to introduce a regression test which should run in your CI system. Mockito had the same problems and this is the solution they did: https://github.com/mockito/mockito/issues/2341 The regression test could be run on emulators with different versions (or maybe robolectrics) and so errors could be catched. Hope this answers roughly the questions. Thanks, On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 5:28 PM Ryan Skraba <r...@skraba.com> wrote: > Hello! I don't think it was a conscient choice in 1.9+ to "drift" > away from android platform compatibility, and it's certainly worth the > effort to make Avro usable for android developers. > > What would it take to bring the Java caode back into a compatible > state? Would we need to separate out some of the core functionality? > Are there tools for detecting android incompatibility that we could > put into the build process? I'm not an android developer in the > slightest so any guidance or contribution would be helpful. > > Ryan > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 4:14 PM David Gang <dg...@lightricks.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Does the developer team want to support the android platform? > > > > We are evaluating to use this library on android and got the exception > of jira issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2863. > > > > Currently version 1.8.2 satisfies all our requirements but we want to > know what the general attitude towards the android platform is. > > > > > > Thanks >
