Does Google offer formal training on Android? I have purchased all the books on the market and have written several applications, yet the one question that troubles me is "are my software patterns prescribed?" How many times have you posted code only to be asked "why did you do it that way?" Now before you say "it depends" let me cite a concrete use case.
I read, studied, and coded the background processing technique using the Handler callback and it seemed to work alright. Lot's of boilerplate code and switches on arbitrary integers, but it worked and my UI was responsive. A few days later I read a post from a Google Pro (thanks Dmitri) who discussed using AsynchTask instead because of its clarity and readability. These both accomplish the same end goal -- avoiding the dreaded ANR! I am not trying to start a thread fire here, but I would like to develop the "prescribed patterns" for writing clean, responsive and maintainable classes rather than whatever this or that author expresses in code as a working solution. I have taught technology classes for several years and I realize that after careful review, most "authorities" are only a few days (or maybe weeks) smarter than you are on the subject. Getting your education this way is risky business. It seems to me that only Google (or someone very close to Google) could prescribe the optimum way to use the SDK -- unless of course someone has quit their day job and has been camped out in the source code 24 hours a day! P.S. What technique should be used to run processes in the background to avoid timing out your UI? a) Handler b) new Thread() c) Service call d) AsynchTask e) it depends! Peace, Scott -- 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
