You can do that (checking the API version). You can also use reflection to call the newer classes. I wouldn’t worry about using deprecated methods as all Android versions are backwards compatible, saying that you want to watch when things are for 3.0 Honeycomb as these are a little different. Here’s an explanation of how … Read more
I have created a solution for validating the domain. While it does not specifically cover the entire URL, it is very detailed and specific. The question you need to ask yourself is, “Why am I validating a domain?” If it is to see if the domain actually could exist, then you need to confirm the … Read more
This could work (instead of your override). public override Type BindToType(string assemblyName, string typeName) { var m = Regex.Match(typeName, @”^(?<gen>[^\[]+)\[\[(?<type>[^\]]*)\](,\[(?<type>[^\]]*)\])*\]$”); if (m.Success) { // generic type var gen = GetFlatTypeMapping(m.Groups[“gen”].Value); var genArgs = m.Groups[“type”] .Captures .Cast<Capture>() .Select(c => { var m2 = Regex.Match(c.Value, @”^(?<tname>.*)(?<aname>(,[^,]+){4})$”); return BindToType(m2.Groups[“aname”].Value.Substring(1).Trim(), m2.Groups[“tname”].Value.Trim()); }) .ToArray(); return gen.MakeGenericType(genArgs); } return GetFlatTypeMapping(assemblyName,typeName); } … Read more
IE8 includes a trident token in the User-Agent string regardless of compatibility mode. See MSDN for more details: The Internet Explorer 8 User-Agent String (Updated Edition) IE7 on Windows Vista Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0) IE8 on Windows Vista (Compatibility View) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0) IE8 on Windows Vista … Read more
The whole point of AppCompat is that you only need one theme (you don’t need a separate one in values-v21) and it will be the same experience on all devices. Theme.AppCompat already extends android:Theme.Material on API 21+ – it is just handling all of the version checking for you.
The abstract from P1008, the proposal that led to the change: C++ currently allows some types with user-declared constructors to be initialized via aggregate initialization, bypassing those constructors. The result is code that is surprising, confusing, and buggy. This paper proposes a fix that makes initialization semantics in C++ safer, more uniform,and easier to teach. … Read more
abi-compliance-checker – a tool for checking backward binary/source-level compatibility of a shared C/C++ library (DSO): A tool for checking backward binary and source-level compatibility of a C/C++ library. The tool checks header files and shared libraries of old and new versions and analyzes changes in API and ABI (ABI=API+compiler ABI) that may break binary and/or … Read more
In general, no. The backwards compatibility means that you can run Java 7 program on Java 8 runtime, not the other way around. There are several reasons for that: Bytecode is versioned and JVM checks if it supports the version it finds in .class files. Some language constructs cannot be expressed in previous versions of … Read more
jQuery seems to be nicely backward compatible. I have been using it for more than a couple of years now through several versions of the core and have not had issues when upgrading except a few minor ones with some plugins. I would say that the core seems to be fine but if you’re using … Read more
Is Python 3.0 backward-compatible and why? Python 3.0 implements a lot of very useful features and breaks backward compatibility. It does it on purpose, so the great features can be implemented even despite the fact Python 2.x code may not work correctly under Python 3.x. So, basically, Python 3.0 is not backward-compatible on purpose. Thanks … Read more