Thanks Dianne for the explanation. I forgot that that was the reason ActionBarSherlock is a library project and not a jar (the resource problem).
FYI, it's still called the "Android Compatibility package" in the Android SDK Manager. I understand your reasoning for it being called the "support library" however. On Oct 24, 2:32 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, ashughes <ashug...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There is now an ActionBarCompat sample code demo ( > >http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ActionBarCompat/index....). > > Is there a reason the ActionBar not been added to the ACL? Are there any > > plans to add it to the ACL? > > No, nothing like this will appear in the support library any time soon. An > ActionBar implementation requires significant resources to go with it > (drawables, layouts, attributes, etc), and at this point it is not feasible > to package that kind of stuff up into a jar. > > Even if we make it possible to have resources in a har -- and that is > something that may happen in the not so long term -- you wouldn't want to do > this with the support lib unless you also had a tool to strip all of that > stuff out for apps that aren't using it... and *that* is a big enough > amount of work that it probably isn't worth doing any time soon. > > Oh and btw, as far as I am concerned it is totally wrong to call this the > "compatibility library." The library is called the "support library," > because that is what it actually use -- various useful support classes. > There is a fair amount there that helps with using newer platform APIs > while still being able to run on older platform versions, but there is a lot > of other stuff there as well. In particular, ViewPager. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
