>From the Sun/Oracle javadocs: There is no guarantee that the name strings in the resulting array will > appear in any specific order; they are not, in particular, guaranteed to > appear in alphabetical order.
Tom. -- Tom Gibara email: m...@tomgibara.com web: http://www.tomgibara.com blog: http://blog.tomgibara.com twitter: tomgibara On 24 July 2010 22:12, greg <sep...@eduneer.com> wrote: > I don't see anything about this change in the API differences report > at http://developer.android.com/sdk/api_diff/8/changes.html. However > when my Nexus One started running Android 2.2, the list of files > created by the following code are now in reverse alphabetical order > rather than alphabetical order (as they were with Android 2.1 and > earlier, AFAIK): > > File fileDir = new File(strSomePathToSDCardDirectory); > String fn[] = fileDir.list(); > > The line "Arrays.sort(fn);" revives the alphabetical order of the > list, but sorts are computationally expensive and AFAIK the explicit > call to Arrays.sort() was unnecessary prior to Android 2.2. > > Was this change intentional? > > - greg > > P.S., In addition to seeing this order change on the Nexus One, it can > be confirmed on the emulator running level 7 and level 8 AVDs. > > -- > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > 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 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
