title: Is it possible to TextView#getMaxLines() on pre api-16 devices?
body: <p>I used <code>TextView#getMaxLines()</code> in my application for a few weeks without incident.</p>
  
  <p>Lint is now informing me that it's only available in API 16+ (<code>#setMaxLines()</code> is API 1+...), though (to the best of my knowledge) I haven't modified anything that would cause this sudden flag - my min-sdk has been 8 for a while, and I have files in my source control to prove it.</p>
  
  <p>1) Why could lint be flagging this error randomly? (To be clear, I mean to say that it should have caught it initially - I'm not implying this is something that it shouldn't have flagged at all).</p>
  
  <p>2) Is there any way to retrieve the maxLines for a TextView on pre-api 16 devices? I checked <strong><a href="http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/ext/com.google.android/android/4.2.2_r1/android/widget/TextView.java#TextView.getMaxLines" rel="nofollow">the source</a></strong> but couldn't devise a way to retrieve this value using the exposed methods on a <strong><a href="http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/ext/com.google.android/android/2.2_r1.1/android/widget/TextView.java#TextView" rel="nofollow">2.2 device</a></strong>.</p>