> No. You can only modify it so far as it doesn't break existing > applications. That can be very limiting.
But you can replace the entire thing with "NumberChooser" when you need to make a "clean break". On Jan 12, 2:12 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:55 PM, mort <[email protected]> wrote: > > But Date- and TimePicker are public and using the NumberPicker as > > well. > > Many classes that are public make use of private classes for implementation. > That isn't a reason to make those other classes public. > > > And you should be aware that everything that already exists in > > the core system will be seen as "standard template", and so there are > > already several apps which copied the NumberPicker or wrote own, > > similar looking ones. > > Um. Yeah. It's open source. If there is something in the open source code > you like but isn't in the SDK, copy it out, make sure it builds against the > SDK, and use it. That's one of the benefits for developers of things being > open source. > > > Isn't the big advantage of Widgets that you can completely replace > > code and appearance as long as you keep the interface compatible? > > No. You can only modify it so far as it doesn't break existing > applications. That can be very limiting. > > > I'm > > afraid you'll now see the "bad old" NumberPicker way longer in apps > > which copied it than it would've been the case if you offered a public > > interface and one day replaced it with another implementation - just > > like it might happen with the date and time pickers. > > We can live with that. > > > Admit it - you just wanted to lead developers to the wonderful world > > of the Android source code and git by forcing them to get the > > NumberPicker from there. ;) > > People are absolutely welcome to pull stuff out of the open source code that > they find useful. One of the gratifying things about working on Android is > that all of our work is available to everyone to freely do what they want > with it. > > > No, seriously. I appeciate your work. I might think different in some > > topics, but you did a wonderful job with Android. > > Thanks, I appreciate it. :) > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. -- 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
