Oops, I meant finish(), not final()... >Thanks for the idea "to pull out the battery" notification! You guessed right >about the category of "people treating >Android like Linux". Which begs the >question of what system calls would you use if your app's data got corrupted >>and the final() could not handle it. Would you consider it permissible to >kill your own process?
On May 26, 9:46 am, Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Yan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, "strongly recommended against" is more realistic, and polite, > > than "universally a sign that the programmer took the cheap, > > unprofessional way out". Its good to see of other ways of handling > > corruption. > > Because Dianne works for Google, she has to be a lot more professional > because anything she says will probably subsequently be quoted. > > I'll put it this way: in all of the questions seen here, situations > brought up by people, including all of the examples you have provided > so far, there is *always* a better way, and this has *universally* > been used by people who took a C programming course where they (also > taking the cheap way out, doubly so in the presence of threads) were > taught to do an exit(n) whenever they needed to just quit. They then > saw the method, without fully understanding the Android lifecycle / > system interaction, and transcribed that experience over to their new > apps. > > This behavior goes in the bin with "people treating Android like Linux." > > > There's no doubt what the professional-opinion is in the episode when > > the OFF button is outlawed... > > Of course, typically the off button these days is simply a "sleep" > button.. and to get the real effect you have to pull out the battery > :-)... > > kris -- 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
