The Android Lint tool is very good at spotting potential errors. But I think it missed 2 fatal problems:
1) No parent style defined for a custom style. [Flag as error] If you create a custom style in res/values/styles.xml, and your new style does not inherit from a standard Android theme, then your app will crash at startup on a minority of devices. It's hard to spot because most devices and the emulator do not crash. You will only find out when you release your app, and receive loads of crash reports... ...But the crash log is weird and the solution is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2605999 2) Call getActionBar() without explicitly requesting the ActionBar to show. [Flag as error] If you do this... protected void onCreate() { getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true); } ...It will work on most devices. But a minority will crash at startup, because they don't show the ActionBar by default, so getActionBar() returns null. The correct way is like this: protected void onCreate() { getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR); getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true); } Please add these checks to the Android Lint tool. Thanks. -- 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
