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diff --git a/changes.txt b/changes.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d4ca45d60 --- /dev/null +++ b/changes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,199 @@ +Change log for Android SDK Tools. + +Revision 22.2.1: +- Emergency fix to new project templates. + +Revision 22.2.0: + +Revision 22: + +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. + +Revision 19: +- Fix GPU rendering + +Revision 18: +* Fix Ant issues where some jar libraries in libs/ are not picked in some + cases +* New version of SdkController + +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. + +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 + +Revision 14: + +- 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: + * + +Revision 13: + +Revision 12: (07/2011): +- The AVD manager and emulator can now use system images compiled for ARM v7 and + x86 CPUs. + +Revision 11 (05/2011): +- See eclipse/changes.txt for ADT related changes. + +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 + +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. + + +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") + + +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. + + +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" + + +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. + |