I got to know about AndroidX from this Android Dev Summit video. The summarization is -
- No more support library: The android support library will be never maintained by Google under the support library namespace. So if you want to find fixes of a bug in support library you must have to migrate your project in AndroidX
- Better package management: For standardized and independent versioning.Because previous support library versioning was too confusing. It will release you the pain of “All com.android.support libraries must use the exact same version specification” message.
- Other GodGood libraries have migrated to AndroidX: Google play services, Firebase, Mockito 2, etc are migrated to AndroidX.
- New libraries will be published using AndroidX artifact: All the libraries will be in the AndroidX namespace like Android Jetpack