| Change log for Android SDK Tools. |
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| Revision 20: |
| - Ant build system: |
| - Ant build system: |
| * the location of the SDK can now be set through the ANDROID_HOME |
| environment variable (requires updating the project's build.xml file) |
| * Fixed issues with compilation, deployment of test projects and running tests. |
| Both separate test projects and self-contained app+test projects now work. |
| * Aidl files from library projects are now in the import list. |
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| Revision 19: |
| - Fix GPU rendering |
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| Revision 18: |
| * Fix Ant issues where some jar libraries in libs/ are not picked in some |
| cases |
| * New version of SdkController |
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| Revision 17: |
| * Bug fixes. |
| * ProGuard updated to version 4.7. In addition to many new features, |
| this will fix the "Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1" |
| error some users have experienced. |
| * The default proguard.cfg file has been updated with better |
| flags. |
| * Lint now checks Java code, and checks which previously performed |
| pattern based searches in the Java code (such as the unused resource |
| check) have been rewritten to use the more accurate Java parse |
| trees. |
| * Lint supports library projects, so for example the unused resource |
| check will properly handle resources declared in a library project |
| and referenced in a downstream project. |
| * Lint warnings can be suppressed in Java code with the new |
| @SuppressLint annotation, and in XML files with the new tools: |
| namespace and ignore-attribute. |
| * New lint checks: |
| * Find Android API calls that require a version of Android higher |
| than the minimum supported version. You can use the new @TargetApi |
| annotation to specify local overrides for conditionally loaded |
| code. |
| * Find object allocations within onDraw, onMeasure and onLayout |
| calls |
| * Find usages of HashMap<Integer,X> which can be replaced by the |
| more efficient SparseArray, SparseIntArray or SparseBooleanArray |
| * Find typos in XML namespace declarations, as well as unused custom |
| namespace declarations and usages of custom namespaces in library |
| projects which do not yet work |
| * Find manifest files which declare more than one <uses-sdk> |
| elements, or which fail to declare minSdkVersion or |
| targetSdkVersion |
| * Check dialog button order such that OK/Cancel are in the right |
| order (depending on the target version of Android), that they are |
| using the standard case ("OK", not "Ok" or "ok" etc), and that |
| there aren't any Back buttons. |
| * Check menus to ensure that they are using "ifRoom" instead of |
| "always" for the showAsAction attribute (unless it's used |
| sparingly) |
| * Find hardcoded android:debuggable attributes on <application> |
| elements. This can lead to accidentally leaving debug information |
| in published applications. |
| * Find errors in format strings. This includes inconsistencies |
| between translated versions, as well as incompatible types |
| declared in XML and supplied in the String.format call in Java. |
| * Find incorrect casts in Java code where the cast is incompatible |
| with the view type declared in XML layouts. |
| * Find hardcoded references to "/sdcard" in Java code; these should |
| be using Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getPath() |
| instead |
| * Find "import android.R" statements in Java code, which can lead to |
| confusing compilation error messages |
| * Find Java code which creates world-writeable files (which can lead |
| to security problems) |
| * Find references to private resources (which can lead to runtime |
| errors on devices that do not provide the resource, since private |
| resources may disappear any time, and may not be present on all |
| platforms.) |
| * Find invalid @id references (where for example a RelativeLayout |
| references an id that does not exist anywhere). If no match is |
| found, it looks for spelling mistakes and suggests other similar |
| ids in the error message. |
| * Finds method calls to java.lang.Math where a float variable is |
| cast to a double and/or the return value is cast to a float, and |
| suggests replacing it with the equivalent android.util.FloatMath |
| method. |
| * Finds calls to a getter on the same class where a field could be |
| accessed instead. |
| * Find XML files using a different encoding format than UTF-8, since |
| this can lead to subtle bugs (and lint was fixed to properly use |
| the specified encoding) |
| * Find XML resource files that contain text which should not be |
| there (such as in layouts). This can identify accidentally |
| malformed documents which happen to be valid XML, such as a |
| missing "<" tag opening character. |
| * Find style references which lead to cycles, such as extending |
| self. |
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| Revision 16: |
| * New "lint" tool which scans Android project trees for potential |
| problems such as missing translations, duplicate ids between layouts |
| that include each other, using px instead of dp units, hardcoded |
| strings, missing contentDescriptions, obsolete Proguard |
| configuration files, etc. For a full list of available issues run |
| "lint --show" (and see eclipse/changes.txt for further details). |
| * layoutopt was removed; its functionality is replaced by the new lint |
| tool |
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| Revision 14: |
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| - Build performance improvements: |
| * resource compilation and packaging now properly use dependency to only |
| be executed if a resource changed. |
| * Optimized resource compilation for projects with libraries. This should |
| speed up this phase significantly for large projects with libraries. |
| * PNG files that are optimized during resource packaging are now cached |
| and only re-optimized if they changed instead of doing at every build. |
| - New library project mechanism: |
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| Revision 13: |
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| Revision 12: (07/2011): |
| - The AVD manager and emulator can now use system images compiled for ARM v7 and |
| x86 CPUs. |
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| Revision 11 (05/2011): |
| - See eclipse/changes.txt for ADT related changes. |
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| Revision 10 (02/2011): |
| - The tools now automatically generate Java Programming Language |
| source files (in the gen directory) and bytecode (in the res/raw |
| directory) from your native .rs files |
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| Revision 9 (01/2011): |
| - Fix packaging issue that broke draw9patch |
| - Ant build rules will now check the Ant version and fail if it's older than 1.8 |
| - Fix "folder locked" errors when installing packages in SDK Manager on Windows. |
| - Support https proxy when installing from SDK Manager. |
| - SDK Manager now suggests to install missing base platform for add-ons. |
| - Default proguard config file changes: |
| * ignore classes extending android.preference.Preference |
| * ignore classes extending android.app.backup.BackupAgentHelper |
| - Ant lib rules now allow for overriding java.encoding, java.source, and java.target |
| - Default encoding for Ant javac is now UTF-8 |
| - Logcat view in DDMS now properly displays UTF-8 characters. |
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| Revision 8 (12/2010): |
| - New SDK component: platform-tools. This makes all platforms use the same |
| latest version of aapt/aidl/dx. |
| - Support for true debug build. No need to change the value of debuggable in |
| the Android Manifest. |
| "ant debug" will automatically insert debuggable==true, while "ant release" |
| will not. |
| If debuggable=true is set, then "ant release" will actually do a debug build. |
| - Automatic Proguard support in release builds. Only need to have a proguard.config |
| property in default.properties that points to a proguard config file. |
| - new overridable Ant javac properties: java.encoding, java.source, and java.target |
| (default to "ascii", "1.5" and "1.5") |
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| Revision 7 (09/2010): |
| - Support for Ant rules provided by the Tools components (override the one in |
| the platform component) |
| - Added support for libraries with library dependencies. |
| - Support for aidl files in library projects. |
| - Support for extension targets in Ant build to perform tasks between the |
| normal tasks: -pre-build, -pre-compile, -post-compile. |
| - Headless SDK update. See 'android -h update sdk' for more info. |
| - Fixed location control in DDMS to work in any locale not using '.' as a |
| decimal point. |
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| Revision 6 (05/2010) |
| - Support for library project to share code/resources among projects |
| - Updated Ant rules and custom tasks |
| - New "android create lib-project", "android update lib-project" actions. |
| - New parameter for "android update project" |
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| Revision 5 (03/2010): |
| - AVD/SDK Manager: |
| - Fixed SSL download for the standalone version of the SDK Updater. |
| - Fixed issue with 64bit JVM on windows. |
| - Add support for samples components. |
| - improved support for dependency between components. |
| - AVDs now sorted by API level. |
| - Prevent deletion of running AVDs. |
| - Settings are now automatically saved, no need to click Apply. |
| - Emulator now requires sd card to be 9MB and above. |
| - Fixed layoutopt.bat to correctly execute on Windows. |
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