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Amos
Amos

Reputation: 1341

android studio and appcompat

Assuming I'm making a new android project from scratch that targets API 15-21, do I really need the compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.3' in build.gradle?

Can I remove it and not be worried about it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1329

Answers (1)

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1006614

do I really need the "compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.3'" in build.gradle?

If you want a Material Design-styled action bar on API Level 7-20 (or, in your case, 15-20), then yes. Otherwise, for a minSdkVersion of 15, usually you do not need it.

Can I remove it and not be worried about it?

You can remove it, but you may need to adjust Java classes (e.g., have your activities directly inherit from Activity, not from ActionBarActivity), menu resources (use android: prefixes for everything, not app: prefixes), and themes (make sure they do not inherit from Theme.AppCompat). Basically, anything in the project that depends upon appcomat-v7 needs to be adjust to no longer depend upon stuff in appcompat-v7.

Upvotes: 2

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