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casillas
casillas

Reputation: 16813

CardView and RecyclerViews on kitkat

I am planning to use CardView and RecyclerView in my current application replacing the GridView. However, these views (CardView and RecyclerView) are supported on Lollipop (5.0) and onwards.

I wonder, what would happened if a user has operating system lower than Lollipop, like Kitkat?

How could I support that devices?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3573

Answers (2)

Sharjeel
Sharjeel

Reputation: 15798

They are part of Android Support libraries v7. You can use them by adding following support libraries in your gradle file:

dependencies {
    ...
    compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:23.1.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:23.1.1'
}

And you can define a RecyclerView from Support Library:

<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
    android:id="@+id/my_recycler_view"
    android:scrollbars="vertical"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

For more, take a look at official guidelines:

http://developer.android.com/training/material/lists-cards.html

Upvotes: 5

injecteer
injecteer

Reputation: 20699

they come as a part of "support" or "compat" packages, so both components should be available also in pre-kitkat versions

Upvotes: 1

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