The Android Support Package provides backward compatibility for Android features by including support libraries for using newer APIs on older Android versions. It allows features like fragments, viewpagers, notifications, sharing, and loaders to work across Android versions back to API level 4. Developers can import the support library to gain access to newer features without requiring the original API level. The support package is updated regularly and is available to download through the Android SDK manager.

1. Android Support Package
+Handaru Sakti

2. “There are three things to remember about being
a starship captain: keep your shirt tucked in, go
down with the ship... and never abandon a
member of your crew.”
Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager
“No man left behind.”
U.S. Navy SEALs

3. Our Desserts:
Data collected during a 14-day period ending on September 4, 2012,
http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

4. ● Damn...new APIs comes with new cool
features
● How to bring them to previous Android APIs?
● Android Support Package offers backward
compatibility

5. Some Famous Features
● Fragment
● Viewpager
● NotificationCompat
● ShareCompat
● NavUtils and TaskStackBuilder
● Loader
● ServiceCompat
● LocalBroadcastManager
● Sadly...The ActionBar is not supported

6. Fragment
A modular section of an activity, which has its
own lifecycle, receives its own input events,
and which you can add or remove while the
activity is running (sort of like a "sub activity"
that you can reuse in different activities).

8. Viewpager
Layout manager that allows the user to flip left
and right through pages of data

9. NotificationCompat
Large-format notifications that:
– include a lot of text.
– large image attachment.
– a list of (up to 5) strings.
– can apply a rich notification style.

11. ShareCompat
For sharing data between activities.
ShareCompat provides functionality to extend
the
ACTION_SEND/ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE
protocol and support retrieving more info
about the activity that invoked a social sharing
action

13. NavUtils and TaskStackBuilder
To provide support for implementing the
Android Design guidelines for navigation.
These additions include a way to implement
the action bar's Up button across versions.

15. Loader
● Introduced in Android 3.0, loader makes it easy to
asynchronously load data in an activity or fragment.
● Loader has these characteristics:
– They are available to every Activity and Fragment.
– They provide asynchronous loading of data.
– They monitor the source of their data and deliver
new results when the content changes.
– They automatically reconnect to the last loader's
cursor when being recreated after a
configuration change. Thus, they don't need to
re-query their data.

16. ServiceCompat
For accessing features in Service introduced
after API level 4 in a backwards compatible
fashion

17. LocalBroadcastManager
To allow applications to easily register for and
receive intents within a single application
without broadcasting them globally.

18. 3 ASP
● v-4
– <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="ASP"
android:targetSdkVersion="latest API" />
– Sorry to Cupcake, you are a man left behind
● v-13
● v-7 (Special -> GridLayout)

19. Revision
● Until now, 10th revision
● More details:
http://developer.android.com/tools/extras/supp
ort-library.html

20. Implementation
● Download via Android SDK Manager
(<sdk>/extras/android/compatibility/)
● Add to Build Path or bring to libs directory
below root directory
● Import your class

21. Matur Suwun, Derek!
GDG Surabaya DevFest 2012