Question

I wanted to use view.setBackgroundDrawable(Drawable) but this method is deprecated. It is replaced with .setBackground(Drawable). But my minimum of API 8 can’t handle that. It tells me to set the minimum to API 16.

Is there a way to use a different method, based on the API of the device?

Something like

if(API<16)
{
  view.setBackgroundDrawable(Drawable)
}
else
{
  view.setBackground(Drawable)
}

Or do I really have to change the minimum API to do this?

Answer 1

setBackgroundDrawable is deprecated but it still works so you could just use it. But if you want to be completely correct you should use something like this

int sdk = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
if(sdk < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
    setBackgroundDrawable()
} else {
    setBackground();
}

For this to work you need to set buildTarget api 16 and min build to 7 or something similar.