Re: Dalvik's Javadoc

2010-05-28 Thread Tim Ellison
On 28/May/2010 00:23, Jesse Wilson wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Joshua Bloch j...@google.com wrote: I was a bit surprised to see efforts being made to improve Android docs. The previous common wisdom had been ignore them; everyone with any sense will read JDK JavaDocs instead.

Re: Dalvik's Javadoc

2010-05-28 Thread enh
indeed. or as we've been saying tutorial versus quick reference versus specification. i've been erring in favor of quick reference: aiming at people who know what they're doing, but need their memory jogged. the other thing i consider important, which i think Sun was always very bad at, is going

Dalvik's Javadoc

2010-05-27 Thread Jesse Wilson
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Joshua Bloch j...@google.com wrote: I was a bit surprised to see efforts being made to improve Android docs. The previous common wisdom had been ignore them; everyone with any sense will read JDK JavaDocs instead. The new goal of our team is, write better

Re: Dalvik's Javadoc

2010-05-27 Thread enh
it turned out that developers are using our documentation because they need to use it for the Android-specific classes, and it's just convenient for them to get all their documentation from the same place. plus a large proportion of external bugs are basically only solvable via better