Easy methods to Migrate Your Android Studio Challenge to AndroidX (And Why)

November 1, 2018 linda

On this tutorial we are going to discover ways to migrate an present Android Studio mission, to make use of the brand new AndroidX (Android Extension Libraries) dependencies.
The Android assist libraries like appcompat-v7 and materials design, in addition to the Structure Part libraries, have been refactored into the androidx namespace to supply simplified bundle names, extra granular dependency artifacts and unbiased, semantic versioning.
This requires us so as to add completely different dependencies into our mission degree construct.gradle file and use completely different import statements in our courses and XML layouts. For this, Android Studio 3.2 gives a “Migrate to AndroidX” assistant within the Refactor menu, that takes care of updating all these packages mechanically.
Nevertheless, earlier than we are able to use this feature we now have to extend the model variety of our Android gradle plugin within the mission degree construct.gradle file to a minimum of 3.2.0, replace the gradle wrapper to model 4.6 with the “Repair Gradle wrapper and re-import mission” fast repair and set up the SDK for API degree 28 (Android Pie) within the SDK Supervisor, as a result of AndroidX requires a minimum of compileSdkVersion 28.
Then we again up our Android Studio mission, use the migrate function, verify the whole lot within the Refactoring Preview and lastly click on “Do Refactor” emigrate our Android Studio mission to Androidx.
This may replace all of the bundle names all through the mission and add the useAndroidX and enableJetifier flags into the gradle.properties file. Jetifier takes care of translating dependencies of exterior libraries to the androidx packages in the event that they have not been up to date but.

Mappings between previous and new dependencies:
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/migrate

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