Hi all,

I was looking over the View class source today and noticed that
setBackgroundDrawable() has been deprecated as of API 16 in favor of
setBackground(). I'm curious as to why this is, as the current
View.setBackground() method just calls setBackgroundDrawable(). What was
the reason for the change and should I being to switch my calls to
setBackgroundDrawable() to setBackground()?

Thanks,
KJ

It's part of the code cleanup, to make the XML attributes conform to the
Java setter/getter properties and vice versa.

Eg.
Setting a background in XML is done through the *android:background*attribute.
The corresponding setter of the attribute in Java was *setBackgroundDrawable
*.
The two attribute names are not the same: *drawable *vs *backgroundDrawable*
.
They decided to make them the same by changing the Java name of this
attribute to *drawable *as well, resulting in a setter called *setDrawable*.