Al, My curiosity got the better of me so I've just downloaded the Weather Channel app to see if I could re-create the problem Eric saw. Sadly I did.
With the weather channel app I saw the force close dialog when the app was accessing the Internet for a weather update. I think the problem may be that the Activity is waiting for data from the call for new weather data. I guess the way around it would be to put all networking calls in a service and poll for data when required by the UI Activity. This way the UI doesn't have to hang around for a reply and the service can update the UI when data is ready. Sort of fire and forget. For user friendliness I would put a "Loading data, please wait!" type message in the tab which gets replaced with data when retrieved by the service. Then again I could be miles off the mark ;-) Pd. Al Sutton wrote: > http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/04/11/android-hall-of-shame/ > > Not a happy user, any ideas on what would cause this and how to fix it? > > Al. > > --- > > * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
