ActionBarActivity is deprecated

Question

Actually there is no problem. Project compiles and runs. But I can't understand what is mean strikeout class name (Android Studio tells that there is deprecated code is used). Can anybody explain?

Solution 1

Since the version 22.1.0, the class ActionBarActivity is deprecated. You should use AppCompatActivity.

Read here and here for more information.

Solution 2

According to this video of Android Developers you should only make two changes

Solution 3

android developers documentation says : "Updated the AppCompatActivity as the base class for activities that use the support library action bar features. This class replaces the deprecated ActionBarActivity."

checkout changes for Android Support Library, revision 22.1.0 (April 2015)

Comments

[dm78]

Other changes may be necessary as outlined in that video. The two changes shown here are merely the most basic changes. It is also important to include the proper dependency for existing projects -- as outlined in that video.

[victor n.]

they could have updated the activity templates. sigh...

[Josh]

Now 1,000,000 will waste 5 minutes fixing this because somebody at google did not update the template. That´s 5 million minutes lost, to be conservative.

[Gaëtan]

The template was updated in Android Studio 1.3-dev

[Neon Warge]

Because google you know