title: What does "This method is deprecated" mean for application developers
body: <p>I see quite a few <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.PictureListener.html#onNewPicture%28android.webkit.WebView,%20android.graphics.Picture%29" rel="noreferrer">good old useful methods</a> or even entire classes being "deprecated and obsolete". </p>
  
  <p>But code that used to call those methods continues to work. So, what does this mean to me, as an Android applications developer?</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Continue using this method as long as I want, because newer SDKs
  will <em>always</em> remain backward compatible.</li>
  <li>It will work as long as I build for older targets (e.g. API 8), but
  if I build from API 14 up, the compiler will refuse to complete
  the build.</li>
  <li>Both (1) and (2)</li>
  <li>Other?</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>This is especially confusing when no alternatives are provided, as in the case of <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.PictureListener.html#onNewPicture%28android.webkit.WebView,%20android.graphics.Picture%29" rel="noreferrer">WebView.PictureListener.html#onNewPicture</a>.</p>