Any one from Google team can respond on follow issue? On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:07 AM, argon gold <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Romain , > > Sorry for the repeated message as I guess my first message went to just > one person. > > I have following two questions related to AbsSpinner and I expect you can > clarify the situation here. > > 1. In my application I have extended AbsSpinner class and after compiling > in eclipse and sdk . The application works fine on emulator or on phone. > But when I compile the same application against Platform Source Code I get > an error message for layout(int delta, boolean animate) method which is an > abstract method and not a protected one for which I can override it. How to > resolve this issue? Why in first case I did not get such error message? > > 2. In your reply (above) you mentioned just copy/paste the code in your > application. I'd like to know which code you are referring to? > Is the AbsSpinner class code? > > > Thanks in advance > argongold > > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> AbsListView and AbsSpinner are designed to be extended within the >> framework. They could also be extended in 3rd party apps but we did >> not expose all the necessary protected fields and methods on purpose. >> We want to be very careful in how we expose such APIs so as to not get >> stuff for future extensions and internal changes. Our current >> recommendation is you simply copy/paste the code you need inside your >> app. >> >> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Qberticus <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm wondering if AbsListView and AbsSpinner were intended to be >> > extended by non-framework classes. As they are currently implemented >> > it is not possible to extend them do to necessary member fields being >> > at the package level and also various abstract methods being at the >> > package level. However, the documentation as it is currently written >> > leads one to believe that it is possible to extend and use these >> > classes to implement custom views. >> > >> > This dissonance between the code and the documentation is confusing. >> > I'm going to assume that the main intention of these classes is >> > specified in the code and conclude that you cannot and should not >> > extend these classes. >> > >> > I know it's more than likely not possible for the 2.x tree but are >> > there any future plans to overhaul these classes so that they will be >> > properly extendable? >> > >> > -- Q >> > >> > -- >> > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Romain Guy >> Android framework engineer >> [email protected] >> >> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time >> to provide private support. 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > > -- 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
