Ran into the below issue and wanted to see what solutions people have... In SDK 1.6 Activity did not have a method onBackPressed (), in 2.0 it appeared. Using the current docs I added an onBackPressed to a couple of our classes. We build against 1.6 (customer requirement) it seemed a bit odd that the compiler got upset when I put in a @Override, so I took it out and proceeded to verify that everything was working, which it was, the method was being invoked exactly as expected.
Turns out this works only on phones/emulators with 2.0 or greater firmware. On 1.6 firmware it fails to function at all because nobody calls it. OK, with hindsight it's obvious what's happening and we've made the @Override an error not a warning. But it raises the issue of how to I protect my app if in the future Android implements a method that collides with the name of method I invent for my derived class. In this case Android will be calling my method at inappropriate times and expecting it to do things that it probably doesn't do. One solution is prefix every method of ours of every class that derives from an Android class with something specific to the app. Or use a different naming convention, like always use an initial capital or an underscore etc. thoughts? mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
