Android Studio 4.1! And... Windows Libraries?
Android Studio 4.1 dropped its first canary yesterday!
(the poor canary! I hope it didn’t get hurt when it landed…)
And so we have corresponding data binding and view binding artifacts:
androidx.databinding:databinding-adapters:4.1.0-alpha01androidx.databinding:databinding-common:4.1.0-alpha01androidx.databinding:databinding-compiler:4.1.0-alpha01androidx.databinding:databinding-compiler-common:4.1.0-alpha01androidx.databinding:databinding-runtime:4.1.0-alpha01androidx.databinding:viewbinding:4.1.0-alpha01
We also got a new androidx artifact group: androidx.window. It has two
artifacts right now: window and window-extensions:
androidx.window:window:1.0.0-alpha01androidx.window:window-extensions:1.0.0-alpha01
From the descriptions, it appears that these are tied to foldables and perhaps
other OEM-specific extensions to WindowManager. Beyond that, hopefully Google
will explain a bit more about them in the coming months.