Build.VERSION_CODES.Kitkat Field

Definition

Caution

This constant will be removed in the future version. Use Android.OS.BuildVersionCodes enum directly instead of this field.

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[Android.Runtime.Register("KITKAT")]
[System.Obsolete("This constant will be removed in the future version. Use Android.OS.BuildVersionCodes enum directly instead of this field.", true)]
public const Android.OS.BuildVersionCodes Kitkat = 19;
[<Android.Runtime.Register("KITKAT")>]
[<System.Obsolete("This constant will be removed in the future version. Use Android.OS.BuildVersionCodes enum directly instead of this field.", true)>]
val mutable Kitkat : Android.OS.BuildVersionCodes

Field Value

Value = 19
Attributes

Remarks

K.

Released publicly as Android 4.4 in October 2013.

Applications targeting this or a later release will get these new changes in behavior. For more information about this release, see the Android KitKat overview.

<ul> <li> The default result of android.preference.PreferenceActivity#isValidFragment(String) PreferenceActivity.isValueFragment becomes false instead of true.</li> <li> In android.webkit.WebView, apps targeting earlier versions will have JS URLs evaluated directly and any result of the evaluation will not replace the current page content. Apps targetting KITKAT or later that load a JS URL will have the result of that URL replace the content of the current page</li> <li> android.app.AlarmManager#set AlarmManager.set becomes interpreted as an inexact value, to give the system more flexibility in scheduling alarms.</li> <li> android.content.Context#getSharedPreferences(String, int) Context.getSharedPreferences no longer allows a null name.</li> <li> android.widget.RelativeLayout changes to compute wrapped content margins correctly.</li> <li> android.app.ActionBar's window content overlay is allowed to be drawn.</li> <li>The android.Manifest.permission#READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission is now always enforced.</li> <li>Access to package-specific external storage directories belonging to the calling app no longer requires the android.Manifest.permission#READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE or android.Manifest.permission#WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permissions.</li> </ul>

Java documentation for android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT.

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