Is it really true that documentation is disappearing for old APIs? Then launch your Android SDK and AVD Manager and download the old stuff. It goes back to level 7, which in turn includes documentation for a lot of the old, deprecated stuff.
That said, now that you mention that and I see that the older versions are not in the SDK & AVD manager, I am glad I still have the old zip files I downloaded long ago for 1.6, though it is unlikely I will really need them. Finally, it seems a lot of angry animus has been generated in this thread by people forgetting what 'deprecate' means in Java: it means you get a warning when you compile, but the API still works. The pace at which things are deprecated is sometimes frustrating, but in this case, I really can't see any genuine harm, and the name really was wrong, so the deprecation was entirely appropriate. On Aug 22, 10:40 am, Greg Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Because we are sometimes dumb. That is why it is deprecated and replaced > > with a method named getRotation() in current versions of the platform. > > > A nice person spent a long time harassing me about this change because they > > insistent that we were evil vile losers who didn't understand what app > > developers needed by deprecating the getOrientation() method. I never > > figured out exactly what was motivating all of that. But if that person is > > reading: this is why. :) > > From where I sit Android is becoming really hard to keep up with. I > have a ton of 2.1 users still so I need to stay with API version 7. > The current API is 13, that's almost double the version I need to stay > at. I can't force people to upgrade or buy a new phone. Meanwhile > the SDK docs show more and more "non documentation" for API version 7 > every day due the continuing deprecation. > > What's a developer to do? > > -- > Greg Donald -- 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
