androidx design library dependency code example

Example: what is androidx library

AndroidX - Android Extension Library
From AndroidX documentation

We are rolling out a new package structure to make it clearer which packages are bundled with the Android operating system, and which are packaged with your app's APK. Going forward, the android.* package hierarchy will be reserved for Android packages that ship with the operating system. Other packages will be issued in the new androidx.* package hierarchy as part of the AndroidX library.

Need of AndroidX
AndroidX is a redesigned library to make package names more clear. So from now on android hierarchy will be for only android default classes, which comes with android operating system and other library/dependencies will be part of androidx (makes more sense). So from now on all the new development will be updated in androidx.

com.android.support.** : androidx.
com.android.support:appcompat-v7 : androidx.appcompat:appcompat com.android.support:recyclerview-v7 : androidx.recyclerview:recyclerview com.android.support:design : com.google.android.material:material

Complete Artifact mappings for AndroidX packages

AndroidX uses Semantic-version
Previously, support library used the SDK version but AndroidX uses the Semantic-version. It’s going to re-version from 28.0.0 → 1.0.0.