How to create a new android project without using support libraries?

Question

After updating my DDMS i realized that whenever i want to create a new project, a support library called appcompatv7 is being added to my project window automatically.

And this library adds some feauters which i never used before. I just want to create a simple android project with one Blank Activity and one activity_main.xml. But this library also adds an xml file named activity_fragment.xml

So how can i create a simple project without using this support library? If somebody make things clear i will appreciated.

Answer 1

The AppCompat library is added when you set your min target to something under API level 13 or 14. (HoneyComb or Ice Cream Sandwich) so those apps can use and have an ActionBar (among other things). The support library (v4) on the other hand is required for ViewPagers in anything below API Level 16 (the FragmentAdapters of a ViewPager use Fragments from the Support Library in API level 14 and 15). It's only in Support V13 that the ViewPager Adapters start using the new "pure" Fragments.

So if you want a "pure/non support" Android App, you can go for API level 14, but you might still need the Support V4 library for some things.

For unknown reasons (I'm sure they had some), Google added some stuff directly into the compatibility library (and viceversa) only so sometimes you need it even when you really don't want all the code…