This repo contains example code for O'Reilly's "Programming Android" by Zigured Mednieks, Laird Dornin, Blake Meike and Masumi Nakamura

1. The Eclipse import function renames the project to whatever name the main activity has.
2. Some projects in the folder are simply not "seen" by the import feature, e.g. ClientServerDemo, FillListTask and SharedListTask.
3. There is a Java error in the MicroJobs project. Looks like some required library is not appended to the project.
4. How come all these issues weren't sorted out by either the FOUR EXPERT authors or by their publisher's editor at O'Reilly before publishing the SECOND edition ?

Hi. Your README instructed me to send comments to an email address that bounced, so I'm opening a ticket instead in hopes that you'll see it while working on the second edition.

I've been working on a project that uses the Finch RESTful Content Provider framework from this book. One problem we keep running into is how to distinguish between "We're showing 0 results because the cache is empty and we're waiting on a network call" and "We're showing 0 results because the server just told us there are 0 results." We'd like to show a "Loading..." message in the first case and a "No results" message in the second.

It doesn't seem that the Finch framework, as explored in Chapter 13, allows the querying activity to distinguish between the two. We've worked through some ideas, but without satisfaction so far, and the remaining ideas are far from elegant. I think it would be a useful addition to the second edition discuss a way to handle this.

The text at page number 185 says that the complete code for The Dots demo (Example 6-7 listing in the book) is available on the web page of the book. Where is it?

AndroidUIDemo contains incomplete Javadocs.

Here's an example from DotView:

/**
 * @param context
 * @param attrs
 * @param defStyle
 */
public DotView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle)
{
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
}

In "FinchLifecycle/res/layout/main.xml",

<fragment class="com.oreilly.demo.pa.ch10.finchlifecycle.TestFragment"

However, it should be

<fragment class="com.oreilly.demo.android.pa.finchlifecycle.TestFragment"

to consist with actual source package.

Here is the full stack trace.

I've tested the application using virtual machine (4.1.2)

03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Valid range is [0 13] 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at java.text.RuleBasedBreakIterator.validateOffset(RuleBasedBreakIterator.java:54) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at java.text.RuleBasedBreakIterator.preceding(RuleBasedBreakIterator.java:90) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.text.method.WordIterator.preceding(WordIterator.java:74) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.widget.SpellChecker$SpellParser.parse(SpellChecker.java:599) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.widget.SpellChecker$SpellParser.parse(SpellChecker.java:517) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.widget.SpellChecker.spellCheck(SpellChecker.java:262) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.widget.Editor.updateSpellCheckSpans(Editor.java:464) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.widget.Editor.onAttachedToWindow(Editor.java:212) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.widget.TextView.onAttachedToWindow(TextView.java:4455) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.view.View.dispatchAttachedToWindow(View.java:11755) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:2424) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:2424) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:2424) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:2424) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:2424) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:2424) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1201) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1000) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:4214) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:725) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:555) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:525) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:711) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:615) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553) 03-06 15:39:29.091: E/AndroidRuntime(724): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Error when trying to search for videos

D/finch.finchvideo: could not parse video feed org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: Unexpected token (position:TEXT No longer availa...@1:20 in java.io.InputStreamReader@e4d093e) at org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser.next(KXmlParser.java:432) at org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser.next(KXmlParser.java:313) at com.oreilly.demo.android.pa.finchvideo.provider.YouTubeHandler.parseYoutubeEntity(YouTubeHandler.java:303) at com.oreilly.demo.android.pa.finchvideo.provider.YouTubeHandler.handleResponse(YouTubeHandler.java:72) at com.finchframework.finch.rest.UriRequestTask.run(UriRequestTask.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)