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+page.title=Support Library
+
+@jd:body
+
+<div id="qv-wrapper">
+ <div id="qv">
+
+ <h2>In this document</h2>
+ <ol>
+ <li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#revisions">Revisions</a></li>
+ </ol>
+
+ <h2>See also</h2>
+ <ol>
+ <li><a href="{@docRoot}tools/support-library/features.html">
+ Support Library Features</a></li>
+ <li><a href="{@docRoot}tools/support-library/setup.html">
+ Support Library Setup </a></li>
+ </ol>
+
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<p>The Android Support Library package is a set of code libraries that provide useful and important
+ features for Android applications in addition to the framework APIs. These libraries provide
+ backward-compatible versions of framework APIs as well as features that are only available
+ through its API. Each Support Library is backward-compatible to a specific Android API level.
+ This design means that your applications can use the libraries' features and still be compatible
+ with devices running Android 1.6 (API level 4) and up.</p>
+
+<p>This guide provides information about what features are enabled by the different libraries,
+ how to use them in your development environment and information about the Support Library
+ releases.</p>
+
+
+<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2>
+
+<p>Including the Support Libraries in your Android project is considered a best practice for
+ application developers. Using the features they provide can help you improve the look of your
+ application, increase performance and broaden the reach of your application to more users.
+ If you use the Android
+ <a href="{@docRoot}tools/projects/templates.html">code template</a> tools, you will notice that
+ all the Android application templates include one or more of the Support Libraries by default.</p>
+
+<p>The Support Libraries each target a base Android API level and each provides a different set
+ of features. In order to effectively use the libraries, it is important to consider what features
+ you want to support and understand what features are supported by each library at what Android
+ API level. To get started, review the
+ <a href="{@docRoot}tools/support-library/features.html">Support Library Features</a> guide.
+ After that, go to the
+ <a href="{@docRoot}tools/support-library/setup.html">Support Library Setup</a> topic to
+ learn how to incorporate the Support Libraries into your application. For more details
+ about Support Library APIs, see the {@link android.support.v4.app android.support}
+ packages in the API reference.</p>
+
+
+<h2 id="revisions">Revisions</h2>
+
+<p>This section provides details about the Support Library package releases.</p>
+
+<div class="toggle-content opened">
+ <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-opened.png" class="toggle-content-img" alt=""
+/>Android Support Library, revision 18</a> <em>(July 2013)</em>
+ </p>
+ <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Changes for v4 support library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>User interface
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.text.BidiFormatter} for handling
+ text strings that combine right to left and left to right-formatted text.</li>
+ <li>Modified {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager} to better handle cases where the
+ pager has a measured width of zero in the initial layout processing.</li>
+ <li>Modified {@link android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout} and
+ {@link android.support.v4.widget.SlidingPaneLayout} to not throw exceptions for
+ measurement while the project code is being edited.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Accessibility
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.widget.ExploreByTouchHelper} to simplify the
+ implementation of accessibility for custom views.</li>
+ <li>Fixed a problem with {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager} incorrectly
+ populating {@link
+ android.support.v4.view.accessibility.AccessibilityEventCompat#TYPE_VIEW_SCROLLED
+ TYPE_VIEW_SCROLLED} accessibility events.</li>
+ <li>Fixed a null pointer exception in {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager} when
+ populating an accessibility event.</li>
+ <li>Simplified {@link android.support.v4.view.accessibility.AccessibilityNodeInfoCompat}
+ by changing {@link java.lang.CharSequence} inputs to {@link java.lang.String} objects.
+ </li>
+ <li>Deprecated an {@link android.support.v4.view.accessibility.AccessibilityRecordCompat}
+ constructor that used an {@link java.lang.Object} as input.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Media
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.media.TransportMediator} helper class to manage
+ media transport control, such as play, pause, skip and other media actions.</li>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.hardware.display.DisplayManagerCompat} for managing
+ display output to one or more device displays.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Other changes
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.content.WakefulBroadcastReceiver} helper class for
+ implementing a common pattern of detecting a device wakeup event and passing work off
+ to a {@link android.app.Service} while ensuring that the device does not go back to
+ sleep before the handoff is complete.</li>
+ <li>Added two new APIs,
+ {@link android.support.v4.content.AsyncTaskLoader#commitContentChanged
+ commitContentChanged()} and
+ {@link android.support.v4.content.AsyncTaskLoader#rollbackContentChanged
+ rollbackContentChanged()}, to {@link android.support.v4.content.AsyncTaskLoader} to
+ help deal with background updates for data changes that are subsequently canceled.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>New v7 appcompat library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v7.app.ActionBar} to allow implementation of the
+ action bar user interface <a href="{@docRoot}/design/patterns/actionbar.html">design
+ pattern</a> back to Android 2.1 (API level 7) and higher. Use of this class requires
+ that you implement your activity by extending the new
+ {@link android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity} class.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="toggle-content closed">
+ <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img" alt=""
+/>Android Support Library, revision 13</a> <em>(May 2013)</em>
+ </p>
+ <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Changes for v4 support library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout} for creating a
+ <a href="{@docRoot}training/implementing-navigation/nav-drawer.html">Navigation
+ Drawer</a> that can be pulled in from the edge of a window.</li>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.widget.SlidingPaneLayout} widget for creating linked
+ summary and detail views that appropriately adapt to various screen sizes.</li>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.app.ActionBarDrawerToggle} as a way to tie
+ together the functions of {@link android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout} and {@link
+ android.app.ActionBar}.</li>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.widget.ViewDragHelper} as a new common component
+ for dragging views within a parent view.</li>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.widget.ScrollerCompat} to provide {@link
+ android.widget.Scroller} and {@link android.widget.OverScroller} compatibility support.
+ </li>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.content.FileProvider} to allow sharing of private
+ files between applications.</li>
+ <li>Updated {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager} to throw an exception if the
+ associated {@link android.support.v4.view.PagerAdapter} class is modified without a
+ call to {@link android.support.v4.view.PagerAdapter#notifyDataSetChanged
+ notifyDataSetChanged()}.
+ </li>
+ <li>Fixed an issue with {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager} children drawing sort
+ order.</li>
+ <li>Fixed {@link android.support.v4.view.GestureDetectorCompat} to dispatch missing
+ {@link android.view.GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener#onSingleTapConfirmed} calls
+ between tap timeout and long press events.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>New v7 gridlayout library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout} to provide support for the
+ {@link android.widget.GridLayout} layout object.</li>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v7.widget.Space} which can be used to create blank areas
+ within a {@link android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout} layout object.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="toggle-content closed">
+ <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img" alt=""
+/>Android Support Library, revision 12</a> <em>(February 2013)</em>
+ </p>
+ <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Changes for v4 support library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Improved interaction behavior for {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager}.</li>
+ <li>Fixed a bug that could cause {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager} to select the
+ wrong page.</li>
+ <li>Fixed use of {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager#removeView removeView()} method
+ during layout for {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager}.</li>
+ <li>Fixed issue with {@link android.support.v4.widget.SearchViewCompat} where using the
+ back button to dismiss does not clear the search text. This fix only applies to
+ host API levels 14 and higher.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="toggle-content closed">
+ <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img" alt=""
+/>Android Support Library, revision 11</a> <em>(November 2012)</em>
+ </p>
+ <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Changes for v4 support library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>User Interface
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added support for nested {@link android.support.v4.app.Fragment} classes.</li>
+ <li>Added improvements to {@link android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager} debugging.
+ </li>
+ <li>Fixed problem in {@link android.support.v4.app.FragmentTabHost} where fragment
+ and tab interaction could result in a {@link android.widget.ListView} state loss.
+ </li>
+ <li>Fixed issue with user-visible hint in
+ {@link android.support.v4.app.FragmentStatePagerAdapter}.</li>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.PageTransformer PageTransformer}
+ interface to {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager} to allow applications to
+ supply a custom transition behavior for scrolling.</li>
+ <li>Added new features and fixes to {@link android.support.v4.app.TaskStackBuilder}
+ from current release.</li>
+ <li>Fixed {@link android.support.v4.view.PagerTitleStrip} to correctly track the
+ {@link android.support.v4.view.PagerAdapter} currently in use.</li>
+ <li>Fixed display flickering, positioning, and text clipping problems with
+ {@link android.support.v4.view.PagerTitleStrip}.</li>
+ <li>Fixed {@link android.support.v4.view.PagerTabStrip} to properly respect padding
+ when drawing an underline.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Accessibility
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added support for new accessibility gesture and touch event types in
+ {@link android.support.v4.view.accessibility.AccessibilityEventCompat}.</li>
+ <li>Added support for new accessibility APIs in
+ {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewCompat}.</li>
+ <li>Added support for {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewCompat#performAccessibilityAction
+ performAccessibilityAction()} method to {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewCompat}.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Added support for gestures with {@link android.support.v4.view.GestureDetectorCompat}.
+ </li>
+ <li>Added support for performing atomic operations on files using a new
+ {@link android.support.v4.util.AtomicFile} class.</li>
+ <li>Added support for the full set of {@code make} methods in
+ {@link android.support.v4.content.IntentCompat}.</li>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.util.LruCache#trimToSize trimToSize()} method in
+ {@link android.support.v4.util.LruCache} utility class.</li>
+ <li>Updated {@link android.support.v4.net.ConnectivityManagerCompat} to get NetworkInfo
+ from a {@link android.net.ConnectivityManager#CONNECTIVITY_ACTION}
+ broadcast.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="toggle-content closed">
+ <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img" alt=""
+/>Android Support Library, revision 10</a> <em>(August 2012)</em>
+ </p>
+ <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Changes for v4 support library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added support for notification features introduced in Android 4.1 (API level 16) with
+ additions to {@link android.support.v4.app.NotificationCompat}.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="toggle-content closed">
+ <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img" alt=""
+/>Android Support Library, revision 9</a> <em>(June 2012)</em>
+ </p>
+ <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Changes for v4 support library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>User Interface Support
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.view.PagerTabStrip} support, providing enhanced
+functionality beyond {@link android.support.v4.view.PagerTitleStrip}.</li>
+ <li>Fixed various bugs for {@link android.support.v4.view.PagerTitleStrip} and
+{@link android.support.v4.view.PagerTabStrip}, including {@link
+android.widget.TextView#setAllCaps setAllCaps} option, title alignment,
+appearance improvements, minimum width constraints and touch navigation issues.</li>
+ <li>Added support for {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager} page gutters, which
+helps the {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager} class provide paging support for content with
+a large horizontal scroll range, such as a map.</li>
+ <li>Fixed numerous bugs for {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager}, including size
+and data set change problems, page positioning, user interaction, scroll tracking and keyboard
+navigation problems.</li>
+ <li>Fixed many bugs for {@link android.support.v4.app.Fragment}, including proper
+handling of {@link android.support.v4.app.Fragment#onActivityResult onActivityResult()} when
+the target fragment no longer exists, dispatching selection events to invisible fragments, improved
+{@link android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransaction#replace FragmentTransaction.replace()} behavior
+and added better state handling for fragments being moved out of view.</li>
+ <li>Added support for the {@link
+android.support.v4.view.ViewCompat postOnAnimation()} method in {@link
+android.support.v4.view.ViewCompat}.</li>
+ <li>Updated {@link android.support.v4.app.NavUtils} to use Android 4.1 (API level 16)
+<em>Up</em> navigation functionality when available.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Accessibility
+ <ul>
+ <li>Updated accessibility support classes, including {@link
+android.support.v4.view.accessibility.AccessibilityNodeInfoCompat}, to follow fixes made in Android
+4.1 (API level 16).</li>
+ <li>Added support for accessibility scroll actions in {@link
+android.support.v4.view.ViewPager}.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>General improvements
+ <ul>
+ <li>Updated {@link android.support.v4.app.TaskStackBuilder} to reflect API changes in
+Android 4.1 (API level 16).</li>
+ <li>Enhanced {@link android.support.v4.app.TaskStackBuilder} to allow it to be used
+from a Service.</li>
+ <li>Added support for {@link android.support.v4.content.IntentCompat EXTRA_HTML_TEXT}
+to {@link android.support.v4.app.ShareCompat}.</li>
+ <li>Updated {@link android.support.v4.app.NotificationCompat.Builder} to support the
+{@link android.support.v4.app.NotificationCompat.Builder#setNumber setNumber()} method.</li>
+ <li>Added support in {@link android.support.v4.net.ConnectivityManagerCompat} for the
+{@link android.support.v4.net.ConnectivityManagerCompat#isActiveNetworkMetered
+isActiveNetworkMetered()} method.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="toggle-content closed">
+ <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img" alt=""
+/>Android Support Library, revision 8</a> <em>(April 2012)</em>
+ </p>
+ <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Changes for v4 support library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Fixed intent flags for {@link android.app.PendingIntent} objects generated
+ by {@link android.support.v4.app.TaskStackBuilder}.</li>
+ <li>Removed unused attributes from the gridlayout library projects to make sure
+ the library can be built with API level 7 and higher.</li>
+ <li>Added {@code .classpath} and {@code .project} files for the gridlayout
+ library project.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="toggle-content closed">
+ <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img" alt=""
+/>Android Support Library, revision 7</a> <em>(March 2012)</em>
+ </p>
+ <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Changes for v4 support library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.app.ShareCompat}, which provides helper classes
+for sending and receiving content for social sharing applications, including new metadata for
+attributing shared data to the source app. This class also provides compatible integration with the
+new {@link android.widget.ShareActionProvider} in Android 4.0.</li>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.app.NavUtils} and {@link
+android.support.v4.app.TaskStackBuilder} to provide support for implementing the
+<a href="{@docRoot}design/index.html">Android Design</a> guidelines for navigation. These
+additions include a way to implement the action bar's <em>Up</em> button across versions.
+For an example implementation of this pattern, see the AppNavigation sample in
+({@code <em>&lt;sdk&gt;</em>/samples/<em>&lt;platform&gt;</em>/AppNavigation}).</li>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.app.NotificationCompat.Builder} to provide a
+compatibility implementation of Android 3.0's {@link android.app.Notification.Builder} helper class
+for creating standardized system notifications.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="toggle-content closed">
+ <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img" alt=""
+/>Android Support Library, revision 6</a> <em>(December 2011)</em>
+ </p>
+ <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
+
+ <p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> Reference for support library APIs are now available with
+ the framework references, for example: {@link android.support.v4.app}.</p>
+<dl>
+ <dt>Changes for v4 support library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Changes to ViewPager:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added extra decorative view support for {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager}.
+ Decorative views may be supplied as child views of a pager in XML layout.</li>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.view.PagerAdapter#getPageTitle
+ PagerAdapter.getPageTitle()} to supply title strings for pages, which defaults to no
+ title for each page.</li>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.view.PagerTitleStrip}, a non-interactive title
+ strip, that can be added as a child of ViewPager. Developers can supply text
+ appearance and color, as well as layout sizing and gravity information.</li>
+ <li>Updated {@link android.support.v4.view.PagerAdapter} methods to take ViewGroup
+ objects, rather than View to avoid class casting in adapter implementations.</li>
+ <li>Updated {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewPager} to use Launcher-style
+ fling behavior.</li>
+ <li>Bug fixes for user interface interaction and test automation.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Support for Fragments:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Changed {@code setStartDeferred()} method to {@link
+ android.support.v4.app.Fragment#setUserVisibleHint}.</li>
+ <li>Added deferred start for off-screen pages to improve performance.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Support for Accessiblity APIs:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Updated {@link android.support.v4.view.AccessibilityDelegateCompat} methods
+ to return empty lists instead of null.</li>
+ <li>Added new APIs needed by the v4 samples.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="toggle-content closed">
+ <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img" alt=""
+/>Android Support Library, revision 5</a> <em>(December 2011)</em>
+ </p>
+ <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Changes for v4 support library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Support for Accessiblity APIs:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.view.AccessibilityDelegateCompat}
+ to support {@link android.view.View.AccessibilityDelegate}.</li>
+
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.view.accessibility.AccessibilityEventCompat}
+ to support {@link android.view.accessibility.AccessibilityEvent}.</li>
+
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.view.accessibility.AccessibilityManagerCompat}
+ to support {@link android.view.accessibility.AccessibilityManager}.</li>
+
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.view.accessibility.AccessibilityNodeInfoCompat}
+ to support {@link android.view.accessibility.AccessibilityNodeInfo}.</li>
+
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.view.accessibility.AccessibilityRecordCompat}
+ to support {@link android.view.accessibility.AccessibilityRecord}.</li>
+
+ <li>Added {@link
+ android.support.v4.accessibilityservice.AccessibilityServiceInfoCompat}
+ to support {@link android.accessibilityservice.AccessibilityServiceInfo}.</li>
+
+ <li>Added {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewGroupCompat}
+ to support accessibility features in {@link android.view.ViewGroup}.
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Modified {@link android.support.v4.view.ViewCompat}
+ to support accessibility features in {@link android.view.View}.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Changes to ViewPager:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added support for margins between pages.
+ An optional {@link android.graphics.drawable.Drawable} can be provided
+ to fill the margins.</li>
+ <li>Added support for {@link android.widget.EdgeEffect}.</li>
+ <li>Added support for keyboard navigation</li>
+ <li>Added support to control how many pages are kept to either side
+ of the current page.</li>
+ <li>Improved touch physics.</li>
+ <li>Bug fixes for user interface behavior.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="toggle-content closed">
+ <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img" alt=""
+/>Android Support Library, revision 4</a> <em>(October 2011)</em>
+ </p>
+ <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Changes for v4 support library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added <code>EdgeEffectCompat</code> to
+ support {@link android.widget.EdgeEffect}.</li>
+
+ <li>Added <code>LocalBroadcastManager</code> to allow applications to easily
+ register for and receive intents within a single application without
+ broadcasting them globally.</li>
+
+ <li>Added support in <code>ViewCompat</code> to check for and set overscroll
+ modes for {@link android.view.View}s on Android 2.3 and later.</li>
+ <li>Changes to Fragment APIs:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added new APIs to control the visibility of new menus.</li>
+ <li>Added custom animation APIs.</li>
+ <li>Added APIs in <code>FragmentActivity</code> to retain custom,
+ non-configuration instance data.</li>
+ <li>Various bug fixes.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Fixed a {@link android.content.Loader} bug that caused issues in
+ canceling {@link android.os.AsyncTask}s when running on Froyo and older
+ versions of the platform. The support
+ code now uses its own version of {@link android.os.AsyncTask} to keep the same
+ behavior on all platform versions.</li>
+
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="toggle-content closed">
+ <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img" alt=""
+/>Android Support Library, revision 3</a> <em>(July 2011)</em>
+ </p>
+ <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Changes for v4 support library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Adds support for {@link android.app.Fragment.SavedState}</li>
+ <li>Adds {@code MotionEventCompat} to support newer {@link
+android.view.MotionEvent} APIs</li>
+ <li>Adds {@code VelocityTrackerCompat} to support a newer {@link
+android.view.VelocityTracker} APIs</li>
+ <li>Adds {@code ViewConfigurationCompat} to support a newer {@link
+android.view.ViewConfiguration} APIs</li>
+ <li>All new APIs (available only in the support library) that allow you to create UIs
+with horizontal paging, allowing users to swipe left and right between content views. Classes to
+support this include:
+ <ul>
+ <li>{@code ViewPager}: A {@link android.view.ViewGroup} that manages the
+layout for the child views, which the user can swipe between.</li>
+ <li>{@code PagerAdapter}: An adapter that populates the {@code ViewPager} with the
+views that represent each page.</li>
+ <li>{@code FragmentPagerAdapter}: An extension of {@code PagerAdapter} for flipping
+between fragments.</li>
+ <li>{@code FragmentStatePagerAdapter}: An extension of {@code PagerAdapter} for
+flipping between fragments that uses the library's support for {@link
+android.app.Fragment.SavedState}.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>New v13 support library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Includes the {@code FragmentPagerAdapter} and {@code FragmentStatePagerAdapter}
+to support the horizontal paging.
+ <p>These are exactly the same as the APIs added to the v4 support library, but rely on
+other platform components in Android 3.2. Use this library instead of v4 if you're developing for
+Android 3.2 and higher (all other APIs in the v4 library are already available with API level
+13).</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="toggle-content closed">
+ <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img" alt=""
+/>Android Support Library, revision 2</a> <em>(May 2011)</em>
+ </p>
+ <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Changes for v4 library:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Support for fragment animations</li>
+ <li>Fix {@link android.support.v4.app.Fragment#onActivityResult Fragment.onActivityResult()}
+ bug</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="toggle-content closed">
+ <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img" alt=""
+/>Android Support Library, revision 1</a> <em>(March 2011)</em>
+ </p>
+ <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
+ <p>Initial release with the v4 library.</p>
+ </div>
+</div>
+