What is AndroidX and Why It is Important to Migrate to AndroidX

If you haven’t heard the term yet, AndroidX is the new open-source project being rolled out by Google to package libraries with Jetpack. Basically, the old way of managing libraries was becoming complicated and so Google decided to start cleaning up their act and use a new system, along with new library terms. AndroidX Overview AndroidX is the new open-source project that the Android team uses to develop, test, and package, version, and release libraries within Jetpack. AndroidX is a major enhancement to the original Android Support Library. Like the Support Library, AndroidX crafts independently from the Android OS and delivers backward-compatibility across Android releases. AndroidX fully replaces the Support Library by providing feature equivalence and new libraries. In addition, AndroidX includes the following features: All packages in AndroidX live in a consistent namespace starting with the string android x. The Support Library packages have been mapped into the equival...