Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
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Page 16 Paragraph under Setting up a PATH to Tools |
The skd in ~/android-skd/platform-tools should be changed to ~/android-sdk/platform-tools |
Rakesh Karanth | Apr 07, 2015 | |
Page 65 Figure 5-1. Activity life cycle |
When switching from stopped to running state onCreate method will no be executed! This method will be executed only once. |
andrey | Feb 12, 2015 | |
Page 66 Paused state / Stopped state |
It says: "The Activity Manager calls onPause() when putting |
andrey | Feb 12, 2015 | |
Page 104 2nd paragraph in the section titled "The StatusActivity Java Class" |
"The class is part of the com.marakana.android.yamba Java package, and as such is part of that directory." |
Anonymous | Mar 24, 2015 | |
Printed | Page 104 2nd paragraph in "The StatusActivity java Class" section |
The package is listed as com.marakana.android.yamba, but probably should be com.marakana.yamba instead, in order to match what is entered for the Package Name in Figure 7-6 (pg. 93) and is shown in the Package Explorer in Figure 7-9 (pg. 97). |
Philip Freihofner | Jun 03, 2015 |
Printed | Page 116-118 code |
The code on pages 116-118, when copied exactly and run, returns the error: |
Rachel Drummond | Oct 22, 2014 |
Printed | Page 138 2nd-to-last paragraph |
The line with reads: "We no longer need res/layout/activity_status.xml" should read "We no longer need res/layout/new_activity_status.xml". |
Philip Freihofner | Jun 12, 2015 |
Page 146 Example 9.3 |
The SettingsFragment class is missing "implements OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener", and the code fails to compile without it. |
kelskye | Nov 18, 2015 | |
PDF, ePub | Page 152 United States |
In Example 9-3, the class definition for SettingsFragment needs to implement OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener. The definition should read: |
John Vogtle | Nov 30, 2014 |