[Question] Why not use AppCompat's setApplicationLocales and getApplicationLocales?

[itsramiel]

Hello,

Thank you for the library and the blog post. It has been very useful to me.
This is more of a question more suitable in a discussion tab but I couldnt find a discussion tab so adding it here.

I have a question that I am curious about.
While checking android docs about handling in app language changes, they mentioned using androidx AppCompat's setApplicationLocales and getApplicationLocales which seems to have a consistent api accross different api levels, and also auto persists language changes using the autoStoreLocales.

I am wondering why the library does not utilize that and instead handle different api levels differently and manages its own storage.

Are there downsides to the appcompat approach and you think the manual way offers something better or do you think the appcompat's way is actually better but did not update the code cause why fix what is already working or you don't have the time for it.

Thank you very much and if anything I said doesnt seem right, please bear in mind I am a beginner android dev

[arunsudharsan]

+1 curious to know the rationale for the library's decisions.