Allow fallback to older SDK sources when new sources are not available [37128543]

Feature Request

Migrated-Tools-debugger

Migrated-Tools-Gradle IDE

Status Update

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Description

pa...@gmail.com

created issue #1

Dec 2, 2016 02:00PM

With every new API level released developers are usually encouraged to implement new features and take advantage of new tools. However, changing targetSdkVersion to version without sources released also means losing support to actually look at the (non-project) code. (The classic "throw new RuntimeException("Stub!");")

Allowing fallback to at least see older sources directly from studio and switch to sources I already have downloaded would be a massive help.

Android Studio 2.3 Canary
Build #AI-162.3454121, built on November 8, 2016
JRE: 1.8.0_112-release-b05 amd64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o

Comments

h6...@gmail.com <h6...@gmail.com> #2Aug 8, 2017 03:36PM

доколе?

to...@gmail.com <to...@gmail.com> #3Aug 31, 2017 11:54PM

+1
There should be possible to open source in any installed (or minSdk for project) android API version, because compileSdk is not only one used for run the app.

Why it takes so long to release source code to SDK when the sources was already pushed to GIT?

[Deleted User] <[Deleted User]> #4Sep 1, 2017 04:28AM

Fuck this issue, always happened from android 23. Fuck this. Not friendly to developers

sa...@gmail.com <sa...@gmail.com> #5Sep 13, 2017 11:54AM

as a workaround you can attach outdated sources, but hope this will be fixed

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/6ihzli/targeting_api_26_what_do_to_about_those_missing/

zo...@gmail.com <zo...@gmail.com> #6Sep 17, 2017 11:44PM

yep, no 26 sources no funny ;(
all the bunnies gonna cry ;((

zo...@gmail.com <zo...@gmail.com> #7Sep 17, 2017 11:50PM

by the way, some temporary workaround

https://gist.github.com/J-Swift/539aaf82ffac21d5515274a24379667f but we need the official stuff for sure

nk...@gmail.com <nk...@gmail.com> #8Oct 1, 2017 05:19PM

rp...@google.com <rp...@google.com> Feb 13, 2023 06:47PM

Accepted by rp...@google.com.

ad...@google.com <ad...@google.com> #9Feb 13, 2023 07:44PM

While debugging, we consider this behavior WAI. That's because stepping through code that doesn't match SDK version of the device is not a good experience. However, we can consider fallbacks to older sources when navigating to definitions while editing your code.

an...@google.com <an...@google.com> Aug 27, 2024 05:55PM

Assigned to ad...@google.com.

ad...@google.com <ad...@google.com> Nov 7, 2024 09:16PM

Status: New