I tried the official issue route of getting someone to do something here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5748
You can star/vote it up, I suppose. It's been months, though. Disappointing that such a trivial fix that would help so many people who are starting out isn't being acted on. I've run into many other documentation bugs as well. Too bad there's no way to get them fixed. It would be easy to put up a site with a copy of the docs that aren't left to die. Allowing comments like in the PHP manual would help a lot too. There'd be no way to get traffic to the fixed copy instead of the broken official ones, though. Just like how all the Market alternatives get so few users. On Mar 17, 9:38 am, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Bob Kerns <r...@acm.org> wrote: > > I've not been able to come up with a single use case for > > calling getApplicationContext(); > > Could someone from Google PLEASE update the documentation for this function > and the samples that use it incorrectly? It is the source of massive > confusion for people new to the platform and results in basically the exact > same "my dialog is crashing" question on an almost weekly basis. > > It shouldn't take someone more than 10 minutes to comment this function > warning people not to use it and to do a find and replace on the examples to > change it to "this" (or whatever is appropriate in the samples). This will > ultimately save a TON of time people would otherwise waste trying to figure > out why the examples don't work, posting here, and ultimately getting the > exact same answer every time. > > Thank you. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered > deviceshttp://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
