| LayoutLib API is a jar describing the API used to load and interact with layoutlib.jar |
| It is to be packaged with clients accessing layoutlib.jar |
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| Layoutlib.jar is built from frameworks/base.git and therefore is versioned with the platform. |
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| IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING CHANGES IN LAYOUTLIB_API: |
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| - The API must stay compatible. This is because while layoutlib.jar compiles against it, |
| the client provides the implementation and must be able to load earlier versions of layoutlib.jar. |
| This is true for all the classes under com.android.ide.common.rendering.api and |
| com.android.layoutlib.api although the latter is obsolete and should not be changed at all. |
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| - Updated version of layoutlib_api should be copied to the current in-dev branch of |
| prebuilt/common/layoutlib_api/layoutlib_api-prebuilt.jar |
| The PREBUILT file in the same folder must be updated as well to reflect how to rebuild this |
| prebuilt jar file. |
