Professional Android 2 Application Development

ISBN: 978-0-470-56552-0

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576 pages

March 2010

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Chapter	Page	Details	Date
	26	Error in Text On page 26, in the tip box at line 4: The text refers to the "Manage..." button, but the name of the button is actually "Manager..."	12/28/2010
	53	Error in Text On top of page, first paragraph: QUERTY should be QWERTY	11/29/2010
	80	Error in Text In Figure 3.7 the state block "onSaveInstanceState" and "onRestoreInstanceState" should be swapped.	3/9/10
	108	Error in Code Section 5: in the code listing for the initCompassView method, the variable 'r' is referenced before it is declared, in the line 'circlePaint.setColor(r.getColor(R.color.background_color));'. should read: Resources r = this.getResources(); circlePaint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG); circlePaint.setColor(r.getColor(R.color.background_color)); circlePaint.setStrokeWidth(1); circlePaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL_AND_STROKE); northString = r.getString(R.String.cardinal_north);	12/31/2010
	111-117	Error in Text Ch.4, Drawable resources: The paragraph shows various "snippets" of code/xml (the listings), but forgets to mention how to actually "use" a drawable resource, e.g. referring to it in some xml layout or in some activity code.	12/13/2010
	127	Error in Text Ch.10, 'Dynamically Updating Menu Items', 2nd paragraph, 1st sentence: in sentence: '[...] you can either find a reference to them in the onCreateOptionsMenu [...]' 'find' should be substituted in favor of 'store' or something similar.	12/13/2010
	129-130	Error in Code Ch.4, Listing 4-29: All 3 occurences of 'menu.FIRST' should be 'Menu.FIRST', so not to issue compiler warnings as FIRST is static. The code invokes 'setIcon' method on a menu item from a context menu. But as said in following explanation, icons on those items are not displayed, while icons are displayed for context menu header. Should invoke 'setHeaderIcon' on context menu.	12/13/2010
	131	Error in Text Ch-4, last sentence before listing 4-31: typo: 'MenuInflator' --> 'MenuInflater'	12/13/2010
4	133	Error in Text step. 6:Although the text says "For the code in Step 5 to work you need to increase the scope of the todoListItems and ListView control beyond the onCreate method", only ListView scope needs to increase. In step 5 todoListItems is not used at all.	12/13/2010
5	141	Error in Text Listing 5-5: catpion should read ?Returning results from an Activity?.	01/02/2011
	146	Error in Text In Listing 5-7, line 5: android.intent.category.ALTERNATIVE_SELECTED Should be android.intent.category.SELECTED_ALTERNATIVE	3/10/10
7	232	Error in Code The text to initialize DATABASE_CREATE constant in earthquakeDatabaseHelper class has an aditional parenthesis, which provokes an SQLLiteException syntax error: + KEY_MAGNITUDE + " FLOAT), " Should read: + KEY_MAGNITUDE + " FLOAT, "	4/14/2011
8	276	Error in Code Listing 8-12: case 1 should be: case 0	4/14/2011
8	281	Error in Code Step 5.1: "ContentResolver resolver" is not needed in this piece of code. Should be (all on one line): public EarthquakeOverlay(Cursor cursor) {	4/14/2011
8	283	Error in Code Step 6: String earthquakeURI = ... Should be Uri earthquakeURI = EarthquakeProvider.CONTENT_URI;	01/02/2011
9	290	Error in Note Replace both instances of MY_ACTION in the note to ORDER_PIZZA	4/14/2011
9	294	Error in Code Step 5: Preferences.USER_PREFERENCE was not defined in pre-existing code	01/02/2011
9	296	Error in Code Step 7.1: loadFromProviders Should be: loadQuakesFromProvider loadQuakesFromProvider	01/02/2011
9	297	Error in Code Step 7.3: earthquakeCursor.deactivate() should not be bold AND insert the following additional line immediately before the above mentioned line. The inserted line should be bold: unregisterReceiver(receiver)	4/14/2011
13	450	Error in Code listing 13-13: }, should be: }},	4/14/11
	450	Error in Code Ch.13 p.450 listing 13-14: int networkType = networkInfo.getType(); should be: int networkType = activeNetwork.getType(); Replace "networkInfo" with "activeNetwork"	4/14/11
13	451	Error in Code 'Finding and Configuring Network Preferences and Controlling Hardware Radios': Prefix the sentence that starts, "You can find the current..." with "In some versions of Android, "	4/14/11