From an automated scan, the following constructors bound in Mono.Android.dll no longer exist on recent versions of Android. (That is, attempting to call them returns NoSuchMethodError).
- Android.Webkit.CacheManager - no non-static method "Landroid/webkit/CacheManager;.<init>()V"
- Class removed in API-17
- Android.Webkit.Plugin - no non-static method "Landroid/webkit/Plugin;.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V"
- Class removed in API-15
- Android.Webkit.PluginList - no non-static method "Landroid/webkit/PluginList;.<init>()V"
- Class removed in API-15
- Android.Webkit.UrlInterceptRegistry - no non-static method "Landroid/webkit/UrlInterceptRegistry;.<init>()V"
- Class removed in API-15
- Android.Renderscripts.RSTextureView - no non-static method "Landroid/renderscript/RSTextureView;.<init>(Landroid/content/Context;)V"
- Package does not exist in API-10
- Android.Renderscripts.RSTextureView - no non-static method "Landroid/renderscript/RSTextureView;.<init>(Landroid/content/Context;Landroid/util/AttributeSet;)V"
- Package does not exist in API-10
- Android.Util.Config - no non-static method "Landroid/util/Config;.<init>()V"
- Constructor removed in API-15
- Android.Util.DebugUtils - no non-static method "Landroid/util/DebugUtils;.<init>()V"
- Constructor removed in API-15
- Android.Util.EventLog - no non-static method "Landroid/util/EventLog;.<init>()V"
- Constructor removed in API-15
- Android.Util.StateSet - no non-static method "Landroid/util/StateSet;.<init>()V"
- Constructor removed in API-15
- Android.Util.TimeUtils - no non-static method "Landroid/util/TimeUtils;.<init>()V"
- Constructor removed in API-15
- Android.Util.Xml - no non-static method "Landroid/util/Xml;.<init>()V"
- Constructor removed in API-15
For example, for Android.Util.StateSet:
api-10.xml.class-parse contains:
<constructor deprecated="not deprecated" final="false" name="StateSet" static="false" visibility="public" bridge="false" synthetic="false" jni-signature="()V" />
but api-15.xml.class-parse does not contain this constructor.
Since these breakages are all prior to our current minimum supported Android version, we could possibly remove them even though it is technically an API break.
We should do something to help users know at compile time about these issues, rather than hitting exceptions at runtime.
From an automated scan, the following constructors bound in
Mono.Android.dllno longer exist on recent versions of Android. (That is, attempting to call them returnsNoSuchMethodError).For example, for
Android.Util.StateSet:api-10.xml.class-parse contains:
but api-15.xml.class-parse does not contain this constructor.
Since these breakages are all prior to our current minimum supported Android version, we could possibly remove them even though it is technically an API break.
We should do something to help users know at compile time about these issues, rather than hitting exceptions at runtime.