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#49024: On the bottom of the page it says "OK, that takes care of writing the program;" however the program was never written. We have just created a ...more...
Ed Burnette says: The New Android Project wizard (File > New > Project > Android > Android Project) too care of writing the program for us. It's not quite empty - when you run it, it should show one line of text on the screen as seen in Figure 8 (Running the "Hello, Android" program). If you really got an empty project then you probably did File > New > Project > General > Project instead. Try it again and pick the Android project. If you still have trouble ask on the book forum. 		P8.0
30-Mar-12
39

#50472: You need to create res/layout-land/activity_main.xml, not res/layout-land/main.xml--Mike Ask

 P8.0
16-Jan-13
52
#50180: The button tags in the new layout presented use different string ids than what was previously entered. strings.xml contains continue_label and...more...
 P8.0
19-Nov-12
52
#49935: regarding the issue #4953 - that the Settings ID tag does not register in eclipse. I found that by taking out the ... the id registers. The ...more...
 P7.0
09-Oct-12
52
#49543: On page 52 in edition 3 the ID (settings)for the item does not register with the Eclipse ADT plug-in. I am not sure if this is a result of my...more...
 B7.0
19-Jul-12
88
#48876: Audio -- You have up to this point made the book standalone. But I had to go to main.xml in your code to find the layout for the buttons. I t...more...
Ed Burnette says: Thanks for the report; I believe we fixed all the cases like this in the more recent printings. 		P3.0
03-Mar-12
99

#49991: The 1st line in subchapter "6.1 Adding Options to Sudoku":
"...we used the onCreateOp-tionsMenu()...". Should be onCreateOptionsMenu() without '-'.--Anto Jurkovic

 P8.0
24-Oct-12
118
#49993: Example from ch. 7.3 From JavaScript to Java and Back This example does not work with 2.3 emulators. I tested it with emulator 2.3.3. Probl...more...
 P8.0
24-Oct-12
121

#49992: Lower part of the page: "the window.an-droid object." should be without '-'.--Anto Jurkovic

 P8.0
24-Oct-12
133
#48696: Chaper 7 The Connected World: 7.1 Browsing by Intent line 14 "public class BrowserIntent extends Activity" must implement OnClickList...more...
Ed Burnette says: No, those shouldn't be necessary. Why do you think so? 		P8.0
10-Feb-12
135
#49985: The discussion thread on this book headlined Browser Intent and Browser View problems details my problem in that some code from the tutorial a...more...
 P1.0
23-Oct-12
138

#50494: The source code for the Translate Client seems to be missing from gz as well as zip archive.--Ralf

Ed Burnette says: The Translate example stopped working when Google removed the service, so the example had to be replaced with the Suggest example. 		P4.0
19-Jan-13
160
#51335: I followed everything correctly but I keep getting the "translation error", I also tried to find the source code, but had no luck with that. C...more...
 P8.0
16-Apr-13