Jacques van Tonder wrote:So basically anything related to android goes to android forum.. Wether its a java question or not?
Not really. Basically you need to judge your question yourself and come up with an answer. Other than that - moderators will assess and redirect you to a right forum. However, it is a nice thing to post in the right forum right away.
Now how you can assess yourself.
Some dummy intro story: "You are building an Android app, some kind of "Guess A Number" game".
Your question:
"How to iterate over a List to check whether the numbers match?"
Now, even though you are building an Android app, such question and possibly implementation would be the same irrespective of whether you build a desktop app, or text based app, or Android app.
One possible implementation might be:
So such question you post in Beginning Java forum as it fits all types of apps, and there is nothing specific about the particular technology, i.e. GUI: JavaFX, Swing, Android GUI.
If your question were:
"How to retrieve a string value stored in resources file of Android application?"
It is clear, that such question and answer is not related to a console app (well, it can, but less likely). So you post in Android forum as it is really what it is the talk about.
Now your question about the
TextView (<-- link) is clearly an Android thing, so to post such question in Beginning Java
means expect that every Java developer knows Android - well, that's not true, in case of Campbell and myself (at least).
Some of the questions really fit to more than 1 forum, however, you can't post your question in more than 1 forum, that is might be a slight downside of our software, but moderators seeing such occasion would help out and duplicate discussion in the missing forum which fits the question too.
Such question might start...:
"I'm trying to create a method, which is looking whether the user is in a network. However, I don't seem to understand how to represent an IP address in Java and what to take into consideration when scanning network..."
So such question probably best would fit 2 forums right away: Java in General (as it isn't a beginners question) and Networking (from Engineering category).
Hope is clearer how to assess your question to which forum it fits better.