What is AndroidX?

Question

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, pleas

Answer 1

AndroidX is the open-source project that the Android team uses to develop, test, package, version and release libraries within Jetpack.

After hours of struggling, I solved it by including the following within app/build.gradle:

android {
    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }
}

Put these flags in your gradle.properties

android.enableJetifier=true
android.useAndroidX=true

Changes in gradle:

implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.0.2'
implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:1.1.3'
implementation 'androidx.legacy:legacy-support-v4:1.0.0'
implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.1.0-alpha04'

When migrating on Android studio, the app/gradle file is automatically updated with the correction library impleemntations from the standard library

Refer to: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/migrate