Re: [android-developers] Stack overflow
Wow, thank you everyone for the answers! I suspect the questions may be too niche which is why I'm not having much luck.
Cheers,
Julius.
On 21/05/2011, at 10:51 PM, Mark Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Julius Spencer <julius@msa.co.nz> wrote:
>> After attending IO and talking to the engineers, I was told to put questions on stack overflow. I was wondering - how do I get people to look at these?
>
> Based on the last set of stats I ran, 83% of questions posted on
> StackOverflow in the android tag get at least one answer. 47% have an
> accepted answer, meaning that the person who posted the question
> agreed that an answer solved their problem. Not all people who ask
> questions accept answers, so the percentage of questions getting
> correct answers is probably somewhere in the 50-60% range, if I had to
> guess.
>
> As DanH indicates, question quality is one key determinant of success.
> The more information (e.g., stack traces, snippet of source showing
> where the crash occurred) you supply, the easier it will be for
> somebody to provide an answer. If your question pertains to subsystems
> beyond pure Android (e.g., SQLite, WebKit), tag the question for both
> android and the other piece of tech, to expose the question to more
> experts.
>
> Another thing that causes questions to go unanswered is if they're a
> bit too niche. The question may be perfectly valid, even exemplary,
> but if there aren't that many people who might know the answer, you'll
> have poor odds of one of them happening to try to answer your
> question. Similarly, StackOverflow, like this list, is best for SDK
> questions -- firmware questions tend not to fare as well.
>
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