Wow, thank you everyone for the answers! I suspect the questions may be too niche which is why I'm not having much luck.
Cheers, Julius. On 21/05/2011, at 10:51 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Julius Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: >> After attending IO and talking to the engineers, I was told to put questions >> on stack overflow. I was wondering - how do I get people to look at these? > > Based on the last set of stats I ran, 83% of questions posted on > StackOverflow in the android tag get at least one answer. 47% have an > accepted answer, meaning that the person who posted the question > agreed that an answer solved their problem. Not all people who ask > questions accept answers, so the percentage of questions getting > correct answers is probably somewhere in the 50-60% range, if I had to > guess. > > As DanH indicates, question quality is one key determinant of success. > The more information (e.g., stack traces, snippet of source showing > where the crash occurred) you supply, the easier it will be for > somebody to provide an answer. If your question pertains to subsystems > beyond pure Android (e.g., SQLite, WebKit), tag the question for both > android and the other piece of tech, to expose the question to more > experts. > > Another thing that causes questions to go unanswered is if they're a > bit too niche. The question may be perfectly valid, even exemplary, > but if there aren't that many people who might know the answer, you'll > have poor odds of one of them happening to try to answer your > question. Similarly, StackOverflow, like this list, is best for SDK > questions -- firmware questions tend not to fare as well. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books > > -- > 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 -- 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
