Jason Proctor wrote: > (sorry if this is obvious) > > if you have a hard reference to a class in another class, then the > classloader will (try to) load that one too. > > instead, use a factory to construct classes *by name* which implement > an interface that describes the OS dependent stuff. this breaks the > loader class chain and ensures that classes are only loaded by an OS > which does in fact have them.
I knew there was something in the vicinity of this, but thanks for spelling it out! -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Development Wiki: http://wiki.andmob.org -- 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