Well the main motivation for designing Fragment was to help write applications that can scale easily across different screen sizes and device types. So, going forward, that is the solution. Now for today developing such apps that also work with older versions of the platform, there are the existing APIs for having different layouts for different screen sizes etc. I'd like to make some form of the new facilities available to apps targeting older platforms, but don't have anything I can commit to right now.
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:43 PM, davemac <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe a hint or two at least? Will we really have the same activities > for both phones and tablets? Or will it be easier to make those > separate? > > - dave > > On Jan 28, 7:54 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have some stuff I'd like to do for a solution for fragments, but > nothing > > to announce quite yet. I'd like to say -- "go ahead and use fragments, > and > > you'll have a solution for older devices" but am not quite yet ready to > > really commit to that. :} > > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > What are the best practices to maintain an app that would run on both > > > Honeycomb and pre-Honeycomb? I do want to make use of Fragments and > > > the other goodies, but I have a feeling this will be a major > > > P.i.t.A. I certainly don't want to maintain 2 separate apps. > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > <android-developers%[email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > -- > > Dianne Hackborn > > Android framework engineer > > [email protected] > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see > and > > answer them. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
