I would recommend that developers depend as little as possible on explicitly using firmware-defined resources. If you need them, copy their values into your project. Or, at least have a value that you use as a fallback in case a firmware-defined resource is not available. There have been too many cases of OEMs changing (or, in your case, apparently removing) these resources in ways that cause problems for apps.
While I appreciate the argument that using system-defined resources makes it easier to blend into the platform, IMHO... stability > internal consistency > platform fidelity and the system resources are unreliable and, if changed, may be inconsistent with non-system-resources in the rest of your app. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Mark Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > Analytics for one of my apps tells me that on rare occasions this > exception is thrown from the Activity.setContentView() method: > > java.io.FileNotFoundException: res/color/primary_text_light.xml > > It happened on a Motorola Milestone which appears to be using official > firmware: SHOLS_U2_01.03.1.1257641482 (which is SDK 2.0, I think) > > The resource in question refers to a built-in Android resource which > has been there since API level 1. > > Clearly this is not a programming error but something else. > > Any ideas how this can happen? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in London: http://bit.ly/smand1 and http://bit.ly/smand2 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
