How to Update all Android Studio Libraries in Androidx

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being using Android Studio for writing Java apps, Java codes is everything sensitive raging from capital letters, punctuation errors, misspelled of words and plugin updates.

dependencies { 

 

//…

implementation ‘com.android.support:appcompat-v7:28.0.0’

implementation ‘com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.1.3’

// materail io

implementation ‘com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0’

//…

}

Sync gradle. If you will be lucky as me you will see an error

Manifest merger failed : Attribute application@appComponentFactory value=(android.support.v4.app.CoreComponentFactory) from

[com.android.support:support-compat:28.0.0] AndroidManifest.xml:22:18-91

is also present at [androidx.core:core:1.0.0] AndroidManifest.xml:22:18-86 value=(androidx.core.app.CoreComponentFactory).

Suggestion: add ‘tools:replace=”android:appComponentFactory”‘ to <application> element at AndroidManifest.xml:5:5-19:19 to override.

It happened because we should not use the com.android.support and com.google.android.material dependencies in the app at the same

time. I will exploit the circumstances to migrate to androidx. In the mapping table we can see com.android.support:appcompat-v7 maps

to androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.0.0

dependencies {

//…

// to android x

implementation ‘androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.0.0’

implementation ‘com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.1.3’

// materail io

implementation ‘com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0’

//…

}

Sync and rebuild our project. There is no error with sync but rebuild finished with ‘compilation failed’. That’s because we are using

import from now unknown library (android.support)

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.os.Bundle;

Most common replacements are:

android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView → androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView

androidx.constraintlayout.ConstraintLayout → androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout

android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout → androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout

android.support.constraint.Group → androidx.constraintlayout.widget.Group

android.support.v7.widget.GridLayoutManager → androidx.recyclerview.widget.GridLayoutManager

android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager → androidx.recyclerview.widget.LinearLayoutManager

<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout–><com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar–> <androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar

android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout

android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout

android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar

android.support.design.widget.TabLayout

android.support.v4.view.ViewPager

to this;

androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout

com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout

androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar

com.google.android.material.tabs.TabLayout

androidx.viewpager.widget.ViewPager

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

}

}

Change to androidx.appcompat library from androidx and rebuild

//import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.os.Bundle;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

}

}

Nice! All Fixed! All we need now is change default them and we can use any elements from material io to android

<resources>

<!– Base application theme. –>

<style name=”AppTheme” parent=”Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.DarkActionBar”>

<!– Customize your theme here. –>

</style>

</resources>

add text field

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout

android:layout_width=”match_parent”

android:layout_height=”wrap_content”

android:hint=”Enter here”>

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText

android:layout_width=”match_parent”

android:layout_height=”wrap_content”/>

</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>

and run in a simulator


Picasso in androidx
Picasso.get().load(imageUri).into(ivBasicImage);

Picasso.with(viewHolder.itemView.getContext()).load(imageUrl).into(viewHolder.field_image_thumb)

Picasso.with(context).load(imageUrl).into(viewHolder.field_image_thumb);

android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton

com.google.android.material.floatingactionbutton.FloatingActionButton

android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout

com.google.android.material.navigation.NavigationView
android.support.design.widget.NavigationView.

android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout

android.support.v7.widget.CardView
androidx.cardview.widget.CardView

android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar

android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView

androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView

android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout