Posts Tagged ‘API’

What’s with the various API levels and types in the SDK?

December 22nd, 2009 Comments Off

(As of SDK 2.0.1)
The API levels 1.0 through 2.0.1 are versions of the framework with which you develop Android applications (see http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/api-levels.html for more). They’re fairly backward compatible but not completely. These are also referred to by integer API numbers and sometimes names:

1 = version 1.0
2 = version 1.1
3 = version 1.5 (Cupcake)
4 = version [...]

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My emulator looks different than in the examples!

December 8th, 2009 7 Comments

Illustrations of emulator usage in books and on the web have emulator skins that look like devices, but if your SDK is at all recent, the emulator doesn’t look like that – the screen is bare. This is a seemingly insignificant thing, but strangely no one seems to talk about it. I didn’t find any [...]

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