[android-developers] Re: No uses-feature name=vibration/; Do all android systems support vibration?

2011-01-19 Thread Streets Of Boston
Whenever the word 'vibrator' is mentioned, the discussions tend to sink to new lows ;-) On Jan 18, 9:25 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: You never know, people do crazy things with Android. :) On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: On

Re: [android-developers] Re: No uses-feature name=vibration/; Do all android systems support vibration?

2011-01-19 Thread Dianne Hackborn
What do you have against vibrators? On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.comwrote: Whenever the word 'vibrator' is mentioned, the discussions tend to sink to new lows ;-) On Jan 18, 9:25 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: You never know,

[android-developers] Re: No uses-feature name=vibration/; Do all android systems support vibration?

2011-01-18 Thread Hari Edo
As an example, the Barnes and Noble NOOKcolor device has no vibrator. Any apps that were expecting to offer that feature run without incident (and without vibrating, obviously). This device also has a number of other deficiencies as it was not intended to be used as a generic Android tablet,

Re: [android-developers] Re: No uses-feature name=vibration/; Do all android systems support vibration?

2011-01-18 Thread Dianne Hackborn
The NOOK is not a compatible device. Currently a vibrator is required to be compatible. In the future when a vibrator is not required, there will be an API to find out if there is one. We are deliberately not doing app filtering based on there being a vibrator. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:01 PM,

Re: [android-developers] Re: No uses-feature name=vibration/; Do all android systems support vibration?

2011-01-18 Thread Mark Murphy
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: In the future when a vibrator is not required, there will be an API to find out if there is one.  We are deliberately not doing app filtering based on there being a vibrator. Aw, phooey. And here I was hoping that when

Re: [android-developers] Re: No uses-feature name=vibration/; Do all android systems support vibration?

2011-01-18 Thread Dianne Hackborn
You never know, people do crazy things with Android. :) On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: In the future when a vibrator is not required, there will be an API to find out if