In addition to Mr. Hodges' excellent reply... On Dec 24, 6:47 am, Valentino XM <[email protected]> wrote: > I dont know about any other newbies out there, but I one, have come to > the consensus that the information on Android is ambigous at best and > completely un hepful in the least.
Actually, it's fairly decent on the whole. There are certainly plenty of gaps, which is why we have lists and StackOverflow and books and such. However, Android is *huge*, and so expecting uniform excellent coverage is unrealistic. > The information is dated in > consistient, mind boggleling and over indulgent with madeup technical > words. Your proof of this assertion is...what, exactly? > Sure we all appreciate that Google has provided this nifty > platform "Open Sourced" but whats the point if you cannot understand > most of it. There are over 20,000 apps on the Android Market. Lots of people can understand it. > As a > matter of fact this code on the Audio Video Playback page is > completely wrong. If you are referring to: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/index.html Then at least the media playback portion seems correct, albeit limited. I cannot speak for the JET playback or media recording portions. If you are referring to some other page, you might consider including a URL in your next rant. > Resetting setContView (R.layout.main) to setContentView > (R.layout.video_player) .. let me ask.. has anyone that is new to this > found a way to include this parameter successfully in Java? Yes. You need a res/layout/video_player.xml file. > and what > about the widgets for these establishing these new parameters , where > are they? What "new parameters"? > there are no widgets in the layout or view menu of the > main XML section of Android 2.0.1 (using eclipse) that indicates these > widgets exsist. What are "these widgets"? > and new custom widgets..yeah right.. should we have > to create a new widget, inorder to get a video_player parameter to > anchor in Java? You certainly need a video_player.xml file. > There needs to be better comprehensive tutorials and updated and > concise information about this stuff. If you feel the online material is insufficient, I suggest following the Planet Android aggregated feed (http://planetandroid.com/), using AndroidSnippets.org, looking at the tutorials and such listed on a wiki (http://wiki.andmob.org), or perhaps picking up a book (or 3) from a list I maintain at http://wiki.andmob.org/books. Specifically for media playback, you can look at: http://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/Media/Audio/ http://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/Media/Video/ http://github.com/commonsguy/droidex You might consider viewing this presentation from the 2009 Google I/O Conference: http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions/MasteringAndroidMediaFramework.html You might consider switching to StackOverflow (and the #android tag) for your support questions: http://www.androidguys.com/2009/12/21/devs-get-thee-to-stackoverflow/ -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
