'Call requires API level 23' error, but getForeground() exists on FrameLayout from API 1
Finally I found the related issue, setForeground()
incorrectly flagged as requiring API 23 for ViewGroups extending FrameLayout
.
If you are not extending FrameLayout
, the documentation is wrong and API 23 is really required.
Issue 186273: View.setForeground wrong API level
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albodelu almost 2 years
Summary
Finally, I found the related issue,
setForeground()
incorrectly flagged as requiring API 23 on ViewGroups extendingFrameLayout
.If you are not extending
FrameLayout
, the documentation is wrong and API 23 is required.Issue 186273: View.setForeground wrong API level
Updated question
Marked as duplicated of Can't use
setForeground
method on ImageView by Commonsware and answered by him:That is a documentation bug. setForeground() existed on FrameLayout from API Level 1; it is only on View as of API Level 23.
In my case the documentation bug is not detected by the inspection in the fork but does it in an integration project, I don't understand it, anyway, this answers my initial question.
But It's not the same case, this code is already extending a
Framelayout
and using this method, it's not anImageView
, so I suppose the method has been removed in API 23. It doesn't appear in the reference now.Update: I add a diff report for FrameLayout:
New question
So my question changes to how to use the method in previous versions, and, why does appear the inspection error selectively?
If I add a redundant cast, the error message disappears:
((FrameLayout) layout).getForeground()
But it's accessing the
View
method that is not supported now.So I suppose targeting a previous API would remove the error message but I would appreciate a solution to use this Framelayout method or a clue to fix the issue in my case:
ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK_VERSION=23 ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION=23.0.1 ANDROID_DEFAULT_MIN_SDK_VERSION=19 ANDROID_DEFAULT_TARGET_SDK_VERSION=23
Workaround
In short, as a workaround, I changed the type to
FrameLayout
directly, so warnings about API and casting are gone, and I tested it works on Android 4.4.4 device and debugging, I thought it would crash, anyway it's only used in one animation, and I will fix/replace it in the future.Initial question
I forked and customised the Google sample android-topeka, and android-studio shows an error that I don't understand about the API level required to use the method
getForeground()
of the classView
inandroid.view
package:Call requires API level 23 (current min is 19): android.view.View#getForeground
The reference marks the method as added in API level 1, and the documentation (
Control+Q
) shows the same:But the
Calling new methods on older versions inspection
shows an error that API level 23 is required:I found a similar question, a bug in that case, but I think this is not a bug due to the original fork doesn't show this error message.
I'll try to detect the first time the message appears, but I did a lot of changes so any clue would be appreciated, thanks.