I'm trying to run the Earthquake example from chapter 8, the v4 version.
And after I fixed the "vibrate permission problem", now in the emulator, when I select one of the earthquakes, the application has an "stopped unexpectedly". When I look in the debugger view of Eclipse, I can see that there was an uncaught exception related to a bad token "token null is not set for application"

Which in turn seems like it was caused by "Attempted to add window with non-application token WindowToken{434538d8 token=null}. Aborting."

Any ideas? This is running in the latest version of the emulator, running on linux/ubuntu (gutsy) with jdk1.6 and eclipse ganymede.

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

There are a couple of lines that are correct in the book but "wrong" in the downloadable example code.

In Earthquake.onCreateDialog()
change:
LayoutInflater li = LayoutInflater.from(getApplicationContext());
to
LayoutInflater li = LayoutInflater.from(this);

and
AlertDialog.Builder quakeDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(getApplicationContext());
to
AlertDialog.Builder quakeDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);

Thanks for posting your findings, hopefully it'll help others who run into the same problem.

I'll update the downloads ASAP to reflect the corrections you've highlighted.

Thanks again!

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