I'll say again: we are not going to remove AbsoluteLayout from a future release, but we strongly discourage people from using it.
If you choose to not believe me, you are welcome to, but I am not responsible for you making that decision. On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Mike <michaeldouglaskra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 <mmur...@commonsware.com> 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 > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
