Exploring the Spilt in the support-v4 Library

Over a year ago the support library development team decided to split the monolithic support-v4 library up into several sub-libraries. This update, in version 24.2.0, meant that an app no longer needed to depend on the entire support-v4 library and could instead depend on only those sub libraries that it needed.

Until now I have yet to implement this update on any of my work or personal projects. This week as part of a general dependency audit, we decided to split up our support-v4 dependencies.

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