Point taken. I'll add stuff as I go along and hope that people will start to contribute.
Thanks On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Raghav Sood <raghavs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The problem there is that5 I started this wiki > > because I am new to android and know the problems we all experiance and > > hoped to have a reference point to be able to find solutions. As I am new > I > > can't really write all of it by myself, but I have added pages and will > add > > more. > > If you are "new to android", please consider getting 12-18 months of > experience with the platform first before trying to create a resource > that requires at least that level of expertise just to curate. Along > the way, you can avail yourself of the copious resources that the > Android developer community have painstakingly put together since late > 2007, such as nearly 180,000 posts on this very Google Group: > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers > > and nearly 70,000 pages worth of questions and answers on StackOverflow: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android > > And all the blogs, forums, wikis, etc. that we have collectively > generated. Perhaps at that time you will determine that another > English-language Android development wiki is not what the world needs. > From what I can tell, non-English speakers are chronically > under-served, so perhaps you will determine at that time to create an > Android development resource for some other language. Or, perhaps you > will just create a custom search engine, indexing known good Android > development resources. Or, perhaps you will think of something else. > > However, if after you have 12-18 months of Android development > experience, you still want to create yet another English-language > Android development wiki, go for it. Hopefully, by then, you will be > able to seed it yourself -- a few hundred pages *might* be sufficient. > I know from personal experience that a few dozen pages will not. As > TreKing pointed out, an empty wiki will tend to remain empty (I think > that's Newton's Fourth Law of Internet Thermodynamics...). > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to *Advanced* Android Development_ Version > 1.9.3 Available! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Raghav Sood http://www.raghavsood.com/ http://www.androidappcheck.com/ http://www.telstop.tel/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
