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After installing the newest ADT & SDK of Android to support API 18, I've noticed that all of the API demos are now considered "legacy".
Here's a screenshot:
How come?
I've noticed that even though they are considered "legacy", they contain some things that do belong to API 18, for example this attribute that was found on the manifest:
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.NoActionBar.Overscan"
It's also weird that this is the only thing Lint warns me about when having minSdk to be lower than API 18 - this can't be the only new thing on API 18 that the demos contain, can it?
What is going on with it, and will we have a different set of samples?
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The non-legacy projects all have a build.gradle file, that you can simply open in Android Studio*.
The legacy projects don't have a build.gradle file and if you want to open them in Android Studio you need to either go through "create new project over existing sources" or android update project before you're good to go.
*) not entirely true: some of them point to outdated versions of the Android plugin and you need to tweak the project settings first.
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