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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Networking Making an HTTP GET Request with OkHttp

Brady Gordish
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Brady Gordish
Courses Plus Student 5,354 Points
Posted by Brady Gordish
Brady Gordish
Courses Plus Student 5,354 Points

Depreciated code?

While it doesn't seem to be effecting the build, I am getting a warning I haven't seen before on line 11 where we declare the MainActivity class. ActionBarActivity has a line through it and states that 'Android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity' is depreciated.

What does it mean if something in your code is depreciated, and what would be the best approach to fixing such a warning?

2 Answers

Ron Fisher
Ron Fisher
5,752 Points

Brady,

I too am working on the Android Track and ran into the same issue. I didn't change mine throughout the whole session but did wonder about a solution. Here is what I found:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/app/ActionBarActivity.html

The short version is that you should use AppCompatActivity instead. I'm going to try that today and I will let you know my results.

Ron