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Hi Carlos,

Welcome!

Your book title indicates you have been digging around the source code to find the nitty gritty about the Android Framework. In your opinion, did you see an increase API documentation updates during the time you have written the book and have done your research? What areas are still lacking (in documentation) and contain real gems (which hopefully are described in your book?)

When I browse around the source code I something get the experience Google is taking a considerable amount of effort to work around their own framework. Did you encounter any of those hacks as well? What scared you the most?

How future proof are the hacks described in your book? Are they clean and working 'with' the framework, so we can depend on them in the future. Or are some so hacky they need attention after every new release of the SDK?

Kind regards,

Johan.
 
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Johan Pelgrim wrote:Hi Carlos,

Welcome!

Your book title indicates you have been digging around the source code to find the nitty gritty about the Android Framework. In your opinion, did you see an increase API documentation updates during the time you have written the book and have done your research? What areas are still lacking (in documentation) and contain real gems (which hopefully are described in your book?)

When I browse around the source code I something get the experience Google is taking a considerable amount of effort to work around their own framework. Did you encounter any of those hacks as well? What scared you the most?

How future proof are the hacks described in your book? Are they clean and working 'with' the framework, so we can depend on them in the future. Or are some so hacky they need attention after every new release of the SDK?

Kind regards,

Johan.



1)
Android documentation has been improving but I feel there are features that lack of it.
My favorite hack in the book is "The SyncAdapter pattern". The sync adapter is an example of lack of documentation and unfortunately it's one of the best android features.

2)
I am scared about private methods in the framework classes
It happened more than once that I tried to extend a framework class and I reached a private method.

3)
Every hack has the minimun SDK version.
Most of them are 1.6+

Cheers!





 
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