Android Support Library 2015

一、Android Support Library, revision 22.2.0 

Added  Design Support library:

• Added TextInputLayout for showing EditText hint and error text as floating labels.
• Added FloatingActionButton for implementing a primary action on your interface as a floating action button, supporting either default or mini sizes.
• Added Snackbar for providing lightweight feedback with an optional action in an animated snackbar.
• Added TabLayout for implementing fixed and scrollable tabs as well as easy integration with ViewPager.
• Added NavigationView for implementing navigation drawer contents, including the ability to inflate menu items via a Menu Resource.
• Added CoordinatorLayout, a general purpose layout, used for building dependencies between sibling views and allowing easy scrolling reactions between components via CoordinatorLayout.Behavior. Many of the Design Library components rely on being a child of a CoordinatorLayout.
• Added AppBarLayout, a container for a Toolbar and other views (such as TabLayout) for reacting to scrolling events by scrolling off the screen, becoming visible in reaction to a downward scroll, or collapsing/uncollapsing before scrolling off/onto the screen.
• Added CollapsingToolbarLayout for controlling how a Toolbar collapses. A toolbar may collapse by: pinning components to the top of the screen while it collapses, introducing parallax scrolling of components such as an ImageView, or adding a content scrim color when the view is partially collapsed.

Changes for  v4 support library:

• Added thegetContentChangeTypes() andsetContentChangeTypes() methods and related change type fields to the AccessibilityEventCompat class for accessibility event handling.
• Added thegetActiveQueueItemId(),getCustomActions(), and getExtras() methods with related state fields to the PlaybackStateCompat class for getting custom actions from the queue.
• Added theaddCustomAction(),setActiveQueueItemId(), and setExtras() methods to thePlaybackStateCompat.Builder class for adding adding custom actions to a playback state.
• Added thefromCustomAction() andgetCustomAction() methods to the PlaybackStateCompat.CustomAction class for getting custom actions from the queue.
• Added the isAttachedToWindow(), offsetLeftAndRight(), and offsetTopAndBottom() methods to the ViewCompatclass for working with views.
• Added the addOnPageChangeListener(), clearOnPageChangeListeners(), and removeOnPageChangeListener()methods to the ViewPager class for responding to page changes.

  Deprecated the setOnPageChangeListener() method.

• Added thenotifySubtreeAccessibilityStateChanged() method to the ViewParentCompat class for notifying a view parent that the accessibility state of one of its descendants has changed.
• Added the translationZ(), translationZBy(), z(), and zBy() methods to the ViewPropertyAnimatorCompat class for adding animation.

Changes for  v7 appcompat library:

• Added the onWindowStartingSupportActionMode() method to the AppCompatActivity, AppCompatCallback, andAppCompatDialog classes for handling action modes started from the current window.

Added the isHandleNativeActionModesEnabled() and setHandleNativeActionModesEnabled() methods to the AppCompatDelegate class for handling native action modes.   二、 Android Support Library, revision 22.1.0

Changes for annotations library:

• Added the Annotations library to provide support for enhanced code inspections. Annotations are added as metadata tags that you attach to variables, parameters, and return values to inspect method return values, passed parameters, and local variables and fields.

Changes for v4 support library:

• Added the ColorUtils class to provide a set of color-related utility methods.
• Added the unwrap() and wrap() methods to the DrawableCompat class , allowing you to use setTint(), setTintList(), and setTintMode() on all API level 4 or higher devices.
• Added the TraceCompat class to write trace events to the system trace buffer, which can then be collected and visualized using the Systrace tool.
• Added the CircularIntArray class to create circular integer array data structures.
• Added the clear(), removeFromStart(), and removeFromEnd() methods to the CircularArray class. Also, changed the existing methods in this class to be non-final.
• Added the InputDeviceCompat as a helper class to access data in the InputDeviceCompat class.
• Added the LayoutInflaterCompat class as a helper class to access data in the LayoutInflaterCompat class and added the LayoutInflaterFactory interface.
• Added classes, methods, and interfaces to support nested scrolling.
  • Added the NestedScrollingChildHelper and NestedScrollingParentHelper helper classes for implementing nested scrolling parent and child views.
  • Added the NestedScrollingChild interface to be implemented by View subclasses.
  • Added the NestedScrollingParent and ScrollingView interfaces to support scrolling operations and provide scroll related APIs.
  • Added the getNestedScrollAxes() method to the ViewGroupCompat class.
  • Added methods to the ViewParentCompat class to support nested scrolling.
  • Added the NestedScrollView class to support nested scrolling parent and child on both new and old versions of Android.
• Added methods and constants to the MotionEventCompat class for getting axis values and event source.
• Updated the AccessibilityNodeInfoCompat class to add methods for errors, content invalidation and labels.
• Added the following interpolation classes for animation: FastOutLinearInInterpolator, FastOutSlowInInterpolator, LinearOutSlowInInterpolator, LinearOutSlowInInterpolator, and PathInterpolatorCompat.
• Added the Space class to create gaps between components in general purpose layouts. This class is deprecated in the gridlayout library.
• Added the TextViewCompat class for accessing features in a TextView.
• Added a displacement parameter to the onPull() method in the EdgeEffectCompat class.

Changes for v7 appcompat library:

• Added tint support to appcompat widgets, including AppCompatAutoCompleteTextView, AppCompatButton, AppCompatCheckBox, AppCompatCheckedTextView, AppCompatEditText, AppCompatMultiAutoCompleteTextView, AppCompatRadioButton, AppCompatRatingBar, AppCompatSpinner, and AppCompatTextView.
• Updated the AppCompatActivity as the base class for activities that use the support library action bar features. This class replaces the deprecated ActionBarActivity.
• Added the AppCompatCallback interface to be implemented for AppCompat to be able to perform callbacks.
• Added the AppCompatDelegate abstract class as a delegate you can use to extend AppCompat's support to any activity.
• Added the AppCompatDialog class as the base class for AppCompat themed dialogs.
• Added the spinner style AlertDialog and AlertDialog.Builder classes to provide an AppCompat themed AlertDialog.
• Added the Palette.Builder class for generating Palette instances.
  • Added the from(Bitmap) method to the Palette class to start generating a Palette with the returned Palette.Builder instance.
  • Deprecated the generate() and generateAsync() methods.
• Added the getAbsoluteAlignment() method to the GridLayout.Spec class.
• Deprecated use of app:theme for styling Toolbar. You can now use android:theme for toolbars on all API level 7 and higher devices and android:theme support for all widgets on API level 11 and higher devices.

Changes for v17 leanback library:

• Added GuidedStepFragment, GuidanceStylist and GuidedActionsStylist to support creating multi-step decision flows.

Changes for v7 recyclerview library:

• Added SortedList classes to display items in a list order and provide notification of changes to the list.
• Added the SortedListAdapterCallback class that can bind a sorted list to a RecyclerView.Adapter class.

Changes for v8 renderscript library:

• Added the ScriptIntrinsicHistogram class for use as a histogram filter.
• Added the ScriptIntrinsicResize class for performing a resize of a 2D allocation.           

三、 Android Support Library, revision 22

Changes for v4 support library:

• Updated the getDrawable() method to return a drawable object for a specified specific resource ID, screen density, and theme.
• Added the setImportantForAccessibility() method so you can indicate if a view should trigger accessibility events.
• Added the getStatusBarBackgroundDrawable() method so you can get the status bar background drawable.
• Added methods to the NotificationCompat.CarExtender.UnreadConversation class so Android Auto messaging apps can retrieve additional notification data.
• Added the getProgressCircleDiameter() method to return the diameter of a circle layout.
• Changed the default DrawerLayout status bar color to colorPrimaryDark.

Changes for v7 appcompat library:

• Added the spinner style Base_Widget_AppCompat_Spinner_Underlined.
• Added tinted widgets styles with Widget_AppCompat_AutoCompleteTextView, MultiAutoCompleteTextView, TextAppearance_AppCompat_Button, andBase_Widget_AppCompat_RatingBar.

Changes for v17 leanback library:

• Added the getRecycledPoolSize() and setRecycledPoolSize() methods to allow customized recycled pool sizes.
• Added the WRAP_CONTENT attribute to the layout width setting to support wrapped content for title icons.
• Defined R.transition in XML to improve transition updates.
• Enabled support for right to left layouts.
• Added the play and pause media key events support to the PlaybackOverlayFragment class.
• Added enter and return transitions to the BrowseFragment class and the DetailsFragment class.
• Added the replace() method to replace items in an object’s adapter array.

Changes for v7 mediarouter library:

• Updated Google Cast icons to use the material design style.
• Updated all the icons used in the MediaRouter dialogs to use the material design style.

Changes for v7 recyclerview library:

• Added the getlayoutPosition() and getadapterPosition() methods to the RecyclerView class.
• Deprecated the classgetChildPosition() and findViewHolderForPosition() methods in the RecyclerView class.
• Deprecated the getPosition() method in the RecyclerView.ViewHolder class.
• Deprecated the getViewPosition() method in the RecyclerView.LayoutParams class.