Right, that's why I want an index. The online search facility has a few major flaws for this purpose:
1) It only works online - not, say, on an airplane (though that's changing) 2) More importantly -- it's not a list. You can NEVER tell, via search, whether you're using the right search terms and getting a negative response, or you simply haven't guessed the right search term. Search is not a reasonable substitute for an index. 3) For some keywords, search drowns you in irrelevant results. Which makes #2 all the worse, as each negative takes a lot of time just to discover it's negative. Instead, I try to remember where these things live, and try there first, before I resort to search. When my memory works, it's much faster, because then I have a simple list of a relevant subset. When it fails, then I fall back on search. But if you're advising developers, yes search is good advice. I should probably direct my complaint elsewhere, where it might reach the people responsible for the documentation. On Feb 22, 4:46 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob Kerns wrote: > > I located them looking through platforms/android-2.1/data/ > > broadcast_actions.txt, which is a WHOLE LOT EASIER than looking in the > > documentation, where this is scattered around. > > On the other hand, the ones in the documentation are the ones you are > supposed to use. There are broadcast actions in that file that are not > in the SDK (e.g., com.google.gservices.intent.action.GSERVICES_CHANGED) > and should be avoided. > > > The downside is, we don't know what the documentation says about them. > > I could grep through the documentation, but I'll leave that exercise > > to you. > > The online version of the documentation has a nice search facility. -- 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
