On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Raghav Sood
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on compiling a list of the commonly faced Android errors, and
> how to solve them. I sincerely doubt I've encountered all of them
> personally, hence this post. Which are the errors that you have faced most
> commonly, and how did you solve them? Please reply to this thread, it'll
> only take a few minutes. Hopefully, in the future people can refer here for
> solutions of some of the errors at least. Errors related to Eclipse problem
> are also welcome. This is not for an assignment or something like that.
> Android isn't even remotely part of my school syllabus.
>
> Thanks
>
In my mind, the most common error -- by a vast majority -- is people
trying to write apps without understanding anything about the Android
platform. There are tons of people that ask "can my app do X?"
Usually x is:
-- Extending other apps,
-- Adding some system level functionality,
-- Altering the typical Android semantics in a strange way (back /
home weirdness)
-- Something that makes sense on a desktop machine, but Android
isn't a desktop
-- Typically phrased as: how do I translate this app from C to
Java, how do I wrap this C app in Java?
The common complaint when people say "Android doesn't work like that"
is a long manifesto that reduces to this:
"You're wrong, and your credibility should all be stripped, because
here, I found this *one app* in the market that does what I want, and
I want to know how to replicate its functionality exactly. Let me
further insist that this app works without root even though the
instructions say it requires it, and that all apps that can be written
work according to the documented parts of the API and across all
devices."
Kris
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