Is there a non-painful way to migrate to AndroidX?...

# android

[jmfayard]

Is there a non-painful way to migrate to AndroidX?
I’m not sure wheteher Android Studio’s Migrate to AndroidX is broken in general or just in my project

[Luca Nicoletti]

That option is the non-painful way to do that 😄

[jmfayard]

Yes, if it worked!
The documentation is quite sparse and I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/migrate

[jmfayard]

What should I do?
- upgrade to support libraries 28.0.0
- add android.useAndroidX=true
- what else? add the androidx dependencies?

[Brian Estrada]

It’s quite a long list of things to do

[wasyl]

I recall this was useful for me
https://gist.github.com/dlew/5db1b780896bbc6f542e7c00a11db6a0

[Brian Estrada]

not sure if I’ve ever seen it written out anywhere

[Luca Nicoletti]

Last time I just hit the Android Studio button and was done 🙂

[Dominik Hys]

When I migrated my app to AndroidX, I used the migrate to AndroidX button and had some errors - I went one by one and updated packages manually and it worked

[Michael Bernier]

Better update to support lib version 28 first, then use the migrate to androix

[liminal]

i found this helpfu in the past https://blog.danlew.net/2018/11/14/the-reality-of-migrating-to-androidx/

[Diogo Ribeiro]

The tool normally....works well. I have done it on 3 different projects. One, had 5 modules. 👍

[Orfeo Ciano]

You can't do it in a completely painless way.
We've got a project with more than 100 modules.
1) Make sure your gradle and IDE are in sync
2) Clean and rebuild the project
3) Run the migration tool

The problem usually is that you might have some third-part libraries that uses the old support libraries, so you might want to enable jetifier in your gradle.properties

android.enableJetifier=true

[Orfeo Ciano]

The only thing you can do after that is going on each of the screens:
- Activities
- Fragments
- RecyclerView (make sure that the inflation of your different adapter views happen)

If something goes wrong the app will just crash, no misbehavior.

[KV]

One small thing I want to add here is like , You are using any image which is starting with http: , this should not work , you have to use https:

[KV]

And the problem with orientations as well. so we have to take care of these things