What does "This method is deprecated" mean for application developers
<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">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">WebView.PictureListener.html#onNewPicture</a>.</p>
