Android Question Librarys & Api's (what doesn't work)

[aidymp]

Hi My app had a very small 1px x 1px WebView, linked to a page I created that sort of tracks usage. just basics, like location, time, etc however after formatting my PC, and setting everything up it refused to work I realized that in the Android SDK I had chosen the latest 23 Api. Changing back to Api 17 it does work. So the questions I have are

1) is this normal, Some libraries only working on certain Android versions (I know things in the past may not be supported) but did not expect that apps would just stop working in the future due to things being removed from the Api. (although I am aware that OKHttp is the new http lib)

2) Is there a document / post that explains, what libs work or dont work on what api?

3) What / where is the replacement Webview?

Thanks

Aidy

 

[Erel]

Which error did you get? In which way doesn't it work?

Android is backwards compatible. Libraries should work in future versions as well.

There are special cases such as the Http library. Google has decided to remove the underlying API in the new android.jar. This is why OkHttp was released.