Updating Scrumnotes to SDK 29
January 3, 2021
As required by Google, I have been working on updating my apps to SDK 29 from SDK 28. SInce this should have been done in November, I am late getting this completed. I decided to update the easiest app first, ScrumNotes
Scrum notes is a simple app I wrote to use during standup meetings. It has
The update to SDK 29 was pretty simple. Updating all the dependencies, Kotlin and the Gradle plugin was the first task. Updating Gradle is not a scary as it was a few years ago. The appcompat and support libraries are no longer supported. Everything has moved to androidx.
com.android.support:appcompat-v7
is now androidx.appcompat:appcompat
com.android.support:design
is now com.google.android.material:material
com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout
is now androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout
com.android.support:support-vector-drawable
is now androidx.vectordrawable:vectordrawable
Next was updating all of the appcompat imports to androidx. So imports like android.support.v4.app.Fragment
became androidx.fragment.app.Fragment
Since I am using ConstraintLayout
, the main layout was updated from android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
to androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
. The BottomNavigation widget changed from
android.support.design.widget.BottomNavigationView
to com.google.android.material.bottomnavigation.BottomNavigationView
No code changes were required other than tweaking some null values in the Kotlin code.All in all, it was a fairly easy upgrade. Much easier than I expected when I learned about the move to androidx.
The code is open source and in Github if you would like to see more.