On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 10:10:44 AM UTC-7, a1 wrote: > > > The alternative is to start removing catch clauses so that the app will, >> in fact, crash and the developer can at least see something. This seems >> like a silly approach, though. >> > > Quite the contrary: if you are catching runtime exceptions then you are > doing it wrong (most of the runtime exception indicate bugs in code, so > catching them just suppressing effect of bug) >
A Klingon warrior does not catch exceptions. Our software does not coddle the weak! I can agree from a pure software engineering philosophical perspective, but I am not at all convinced that end users prefer this approach. The idea of exceptions as "unexpected" falls away once you are doing anything like network access or even file access. > , on the other hand if you checked exception handling is just catch and > log you are also doing it wrong - > But it is a start. It doesn't hurt to log it even you think you are already doing the "right thing" in response to it. > if exception occur some operation was prematurely terminated so usually it > should be communicated to user (for example IOException when downloading > something should at least end with some message shown). > Assuming you are doing all that and giving the best user friendly message to the user possible, you still might have a vested interest in the nitty gritty details of those exceptions to fix the problem. Original poster's query is very legitimate. Nathan -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
