Is Android Cursor.moveToNext() Documentation Correct?

Question

boolean android.database.Cursor.moveToNext() documentation says:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/Cursor.html#moveToNext%28%29

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Answer 1

I think I tend to stay away from solutions that are based on a hidden assumption like: I hope that sqlite never changes it api and that a cursor will always start at the first item.

Also, I have almost always been able to replace a while statement with a for statement. So my solution, shows what I expect the cursor to start at, and avoids using a while statement:

for( boolean haveRow = c.moveToFirst(); haveRow; haveRow = c.moveToNext() ) {
...
}

why is showing that a cursor needs to start at the first row, well 6 months down the line you might be debugging your own code, and will wonder why you didn't make that explicit so you could easily debug it.