What is AndroidX?

I am reading about a room library of Android. I see they changed package android to androidx. I did not understand that. Can someone explain, please? implementation “androidx.room:room-runtime:$room_version” annotationProcessor “androidx.room:room-compiler:$room_version” Even this is available with the android package also. implementation “android.arch.persistence.room:runtime:$room_version” annotationProcessor “android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:$room_version” What was in need of packaging new support libraries in androidx instead … Read more

AndroidJUnit4.class is deprecated: How to use androidx.test.ext.junit.runners.AndroidJUnit4?

For my instrumentation tests I was using @RunWith(AndroidJUnit4.class) from import androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnit4; in order to establish my test cases. Now this line gets marked as deprecated with the hint to use AndroidJUnit4 from import androidx.test.ext.junit.runners.AndroidJUnit4 However if I try to import AndroidJUnit4 from the named package I get the error, that ext can not be resolved. … Read more