On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 18:18, Bret Foreman <bret.fore...@gmail.com> wrote: > One approach is to download the ExpandableListView source and debug > the problem. But there is evidence from the API that this > implementation is messy and anyway I'm not sure how much of the > framework I'll need to download in order to find the problem. On the > other hand, fixing the bug would be a friendly thing to do for the > Android community and would eventually mean the code was supported. > > So my first question is, has anyone had experience finding and fixing > bugs in the Android framework? How hard is it to set up and how clean > (and commented) is the code?
There are a bunch of blog posts scattered about the internet that explain how to link the Android SDK source to the jars in Eclipse. I can't remember if I used http://android.opensourceror.org/2010/01/18/android-source/ or not, but it looks pretty similar to what I did. I've done some digging around in Gallery and its friends to find and work around http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11771 in my own code, but I mostly read the source to figure out how the framework works. > Another approach is to re-implement ExpandableListView using more > primitive elements in the framework. I did this for the nearly > unusable GridView and I'm very pleased with the results. However, I'm > on my own to support the code unless I want to lobby Google to create > a new class in the Android framework. Otherwise, if my private > UberGridView doesn't work on some device, I won't have the resources > to fix it. Given that any bug fixes probably won't get to the majority of existing devices, you're pretty much going to have to treat the bug as if it's a permanent "feature" of any version earlier than the next major release that has the fix. If you base your code on well-documented APIs, you should be fine -- it's no different from writing any other kind of custom view. --J -- 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
