With the latest v4 support library, we can also start using SimpleArrayMap/ArrayMap for some of the places where we've been using HashMap. SimpleArrayMap [1] and ArrayMap [2] have better memory characteristics than HashMap for a small perf tradeoff.
[1] http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/util/SimpleArrayMap.html [2] http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/util/ArrayMap.html Jim On 3/31/14 2:45 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: > Thanks for posting, jdover. > > On 2014-03-31, 11:36 AM, Joshua Dover wrote: >> If we want to use the new SwipeRefreshLayout for Bug 970707 >> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=970707> we will need to >> update our support library to the newest version >> <http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/index.html> >> (19.1.0). As >> far as I can tell there are not any breaking changes as the only other >> changes listed on the Android site are bug fixes. > > I'd just like to clarify that there are multiple version of the > support library: v4, v7, and v13. Each of these has its own release > version. > > What jdover is suggesting is that we rev the v4 library to the newer > release version to get access to the new SwipeRefreshLayout class. > I'm +1 to this; we want to use it in a few different places: > > * pull to refresh home page lists; > * refresh remote synced tabs; > * possibly pull to sync in the Firefox Accounts + Sync 1.5 status > activity. > >> This will require all developers building fennec to update the support >> library on their local machines using the Android SDK Manager, as well >> as having it updated on the build servers (blassey help here?). >> >> Are there any other concerns that anyone knows about in regards to >> updating? > > If we could interrogate the v4 internal version and fail the build if > we don't have a sufficiently recent version, it would help a great > deal. But in any case, I think we should do this, and will help with > the build system as needed. > > Nick > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > mobile-firefox-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev _______________________________________________ mobile-firefox-dev mailing list mobile-firefox-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev
