Quite satisfied. I have most of my questions answered in this discussion list.
On Mar 27, 11:02 am, Adriano Crestani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm disappointed. > > I have stucked in many parts of my app implementation. Most of time I > try to understand why I get some errors checking the classes > documentation on Android Docs website, and sometimes it helps, cause I > find out I'm not using the Android SDK correctly. Unfortunately, at > this website I can just find the documetation of part of those classes > included in Android SDK : ( > > When I cannot understand my app erros just looking at this > documentation, I ask about it on the dev list. And I think they should > provide a better support for it, since Android SDK is not open source > yet and if you get stucked, you cannot go in the code and check if > it's your mistake or a bug. I've sent some questions to dev list, but > got only answer about one problem : ( > > I think if the developers don't know the answer yet, they should at > least say "we will check it out later" or something like that, instead > of just ignore me. > > Adriano Crestani > > On Mar 27, 12:14 pm, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I for myself found the help given in this forum quite ample. For most > > of the questions I came across there were already useful answers in > > the forum. I tried not to work against Android, but tried to see what > > is possible and implement features based on that. (for example, I > > would not have tried to fix the key mode / touch mode issue creating > > workarounds for the m5 behavior, as this is really something the > > Android team has to clean up. And if they finally change this > > behavior, all workarounds are useless anyway.) > > > I profited a lot from the samples that were given, for example on the > > media player. > > > What I do not understand is that certain features that worked in m3 > > and broke in m5 have not been fixed earlier, like sound recording. I > > understand that Android itself is probably still undergoing massive > > refactoring. But it may not have been too much effort to keep a > > separate branch of m5 where the most critical bugs could be fixed in > > parallel to the work going on for future releases. > > > In this sense, the Android team sticked to the Google code hosting > > motto (http://code.google.com/hosting/) "release early, release > > often" on the first part - they indeed released a pre-alpha SDK - but > > I personally think they could have done better on the "release often" > > part. After all, fixing some bugs may help to uncover others that are > > still hidden. So to make most use of the "challenge" period where many > > programmers work with the SDK, even a weekly bugfix update of the SDK > > would not have been too often. > > > I don't know whether another update would be released before the > > challenge deadline. Given that it less than 2 1/2 weeks from now, I'd > > say it is rather unlikely that many developers will risk having to > > debug their programs from scratch again - so another round of > > potentially valuable feedback got lost here. > > > It is quite predictable that the interest will decrease after the end > > of the first deadline - but there is still challenge II. So let's see > > how things develop. > > > Peli > > > On Mar 27, 3:51 pm, Anil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please post your opinion: > > > For me, I am disappointed. There must be scores of Google-Android > > > employees dedicated to this project, but only a handful help out in > > > the forums (digit, hackbod, megha, romain) in their free time. > > > Sometimes I am stuck for days and have to create application > > > workarounds. > > > > Most of the people helping are ordinary developers like us helping > > > each other out. > > > Sometimes I wonder if Google is exploiting us in this whole Android > > > project. > > > Google, please don't exploit us, instead help us! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
