I dont know about any other newbies out there, but I one, have come to the consensus that the information on Android is ambigous at best and completely un hepful in the least. The information is dated in consistient, mind boggleling and over indulgent with madeup technical words. Sure we all appreciate that Google has provided this nifty platform "Open Sourced" but whats the point if you cannot understand most of it.. spending two weeks on coding issues like "Streaming Video" or playback of video because the "so called easy" code provided on the Developers page is not in the least bit true.. As a matter of fact this code on the Audio Video Playback page is completely wrong. Nothing in the code sequence is right.. Being able to code "Hello World" is a far cry from finding out after 2 weeks that most of the code for anything is wrong or outdated , because of new methods an versions.
Resetting setContView (R.layout.main) to setContentView (R.layout.video_player) .. let me ask.. has anyone that is new to this found a way to include this parameter successfully in Java?.. and what about the widgets for these establishing these new parameters , where are they? there are no widgets in the layout or view menu of the main XML section of Android 2.0.1 (using eclipse) that indicates these widgets exsist.. and new custom widgets..yeah right.. should we have to create a new widget, inorder to get a video_player parameter to anchor in Java?. I dontt know.. Creating a customized widget is an exercise in itself.. I mean, im a curious person and want to learn this stuff..but c'mon give us newbees a break.. There needs to be better comprehensive tutorials and updated and concise information about this stuff.. I thought it was not an elitist cult .. but an open sourced and friendly group of people who wanted to break away from the other greedy and proprietary groups out there.. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
