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Is there a deadline when Kotlin Synthetics is goin...

Johan

03/03/2021, 10:31 AM

Is there a deadline when Kotlin Synthetics is going to go from deprecated to removed? Or any official place it is being specifically stated?

Blaž Vantur

03/03/2021, 10:33 AM

Johan

03/03/2021, 10:34 AM

Thanks. Ok, so after/during September this year synthetic are going to be unusable at all on future versions if I understand correctly.

Blaž Vantur

03/03/2021, 10:40 AM

I believe Kotlin Synthetics will still work after September if you don’t upgrade Kotlin to

1.4.20

or later. But is recommended to replace them with viewbinding which is not a hard task to do. You can read more about that here: https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/view-binding/migration

Johan

03/03/2021, 10:44 AM

Thank you. Seems like a none option if the cost is to permanently block newer kotlin versions. So will migrate soon rather than later.

Blaž Vantur

03/03/2021, 10:46 AM

I believe that is for the best yeah! 😉 Good luck with that! 😄 💪

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Blaž Vantur

03/03/2021, 10:52 AM

Also, another due date for Android developers regarding app bundles. That one is more urgent than synthetics. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/11/new-android-app-bundle-and-target-api.html

Johan

03/03/2021, 10:55 AM

Yeah, That is really important. Most likely Google are going to require even existing to converted next year to be able to update.

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