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Is there something in the Android developers site that shows what is deprecated by a certain addition to the API?
For instance, how can a person tell what is deprecated by Fragments?
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An element may be deprecated for any of several reasons, for example, its usage is likely to lead to errors; it may be changed incompatibly or removed in a future version; it has been superseded by a newer, usually preferable alternative; or it is obsolete.
What happens if i continue using Deprecated methods? Code would continue running as it is until method is removed from SDK. If you are using deprecated method then you must keep track of removed apis whenever you upgrade to newest SDK. If you don't want a change at all then check for the reason behind deprecation.
Yes you can use deprecated methods as long as the depreciated method exists in the framework. By deprecating a method the platform developers are trying to tell you that either something is wrong with the method or there is already better way for doing the task.
The new release notes are available at the new URL here in a more human readable format -
https://developer.android.com/about/versions/11
The old URL still works with API levels, but for some reason the older versions downloads a tar file instead with the webpage source, probably because they are archived.
Additionally, you don't need .html at the end of the URL anymore. So the new API diff URL would be
https://developer.android.com/sdk/api_diff/30/changes
There is always a change report whenever they release a new API, I m putting the link for latest change report for Android 4.0
http://developer.android.com/sdk/api_diff/14/changes.html
There is a section where its mentioned the added and changed packages. You can click on particular package and get to know about deprecated classes and changed methods. If you need change report of earlier versions, just reduce the no. (14) in the link and you'll get those change reports. Hopefully this will answer your question.
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