Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Initializing from context passing Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:35:26 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <91ga4tF38vU1@mid.individual.net> <91gnv8F6ooU1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net 3WPolD65W+S0+G47Xx1yH0QFaAkCApTKou3yQtnLsHGULz0eOtdbU3YKtoV1ejZAOlIKcJIoXe5obFnsjonv3P0+HS+HmmOq2EpkrXI+qQvE+U4kVy74Fm761/a82AXv NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:35:17 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="uwrjtkdbjCHSLPxvjz4HPs4zGzDygUkthccfS0eOxFQjRa9wNNxKgxu3hIMd3mY+HVY69ZWijJ3XK9xbAzv6VkJXPcUcYAKx925+HslsYJ3mLwLnFZhvTxNvRMyT/lQQ"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 In-Reply-To: <91gnv8F6ooU1@mid.individual.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:Sn1lWZVQGeVqVnBwk5qWByYhTfQ= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3223 On 04/23/2011 03:34 PM, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote: > Daniele Futtorovic wrote: >> And do use interface types rather than implementations, unless you >> specifically rely on a detail of the implementation (which is often a >> bad sign). That is, make it a List, not an ArrayList. > > I would appreciate a pointer to an example. > Everything I have come across in the Android examples I have seen uses > ArrayAdapter They said to use 'List' instead of 'ArrayList', not instead of 'ArrayAdapter'! It makes absolutely no sense, and would not compile, to use 'List' in lieu of 'ArrayAdapter', n'est-ce pas? -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg