On Apr 7, 8:14 am, "~ TreKing" <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:44 PM, DonFrench <dcfre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And the truth is that even then the odds are that no one will answer you. > > I highly disagree. > > > I recently posted a very simple and clear one-sentence question > > Which was what, out of curiosity?
This one: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/2f749b89c6a5ef7e > > > that I know a high percentage of the people on this list knew the answer > > to. > > And you know this for a fact how? Because when I found the answer for myself, I saw that it was something that any experienced Android developer would probably know. > > > Trying to figure out how to get an answer from this group is a puzzle in > > itself. > > The problem is that on these Android groups a lot of people post things like > "URGENT!: my app doesn't work, why?", or, like in this case, large chunk of > alien code with no context, or "here's a picture of what I want to do, how > do I do it?", or other equally vague and generic posts that would take hours > to answer completely. > > I don't know about the rest of the group, but I'm more inclined to help > where I can when 1) The post is clear, concise, and specific (not "it > doesn't work") and 2) The person indicates that they've put time and energy > into solving the problem and they've narrowed it down to something specific > (they Googled with no result, they checked the debug log with nothing > obvious, they've tried A, B, C, and D with no luck, etc). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered > deviceshttp://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
