Revisions
The sections below provide notes about successive releases of the Support Package, as denoted by revision number.
Support Package, revision 7 (March 2012)
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Changes for v4 support library:
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- Added
ShareCompat
, which provides helper classes for sending and receiving content for social sharing applications, including new metadata for attributing shared data to the source app. This class also provides compatible integration with the newShareActionProvider
in Android 4.0. - Added
NavUtils
andTaskStackBuilder
to provide support for implementing theAndroid Design guidelines for navigation. These additions include a way to implement the action bar's Up button across versions. For an example implementation of this pattern, see the AppNavigation sample in (<sdk>/samples/<platform>/AppNavigation
). - Added
NotificationCompat.Builder
to provide a compatibility implementation of Android 3.0'sNotification.Builder
helper class for creating standardized system notifications.
- Added