When there is actual good hard info to provide, it is. Many of these rumors get started by companies saying things based on incomplete knowledge or understanding before any firm decisions have been made. Trust me, you probably don't want to try to follow the changing world that exists before real announcements are made; that would give you more of a headache, not less.
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Ed Burnette <[email protected]> wrote: > Hard info to replace the rumors would be most welcome. :) > > According to Viewsonic, there will be a release in between 2.3 and 3.0 > (http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/38311/android-2-4-april-release- > date). That means it must be under development somewhere now, which > means some folks (the involved devs and project leads at least) have > an idea what will go in it. Without roadmaps or public source trees or > development work-blogs, the rest of us are left to guess and > speculate. I'd much rather we didn't have to. > > > On Feb 8, 1:14 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Honeycomb framework APIs are introduced in 3.0. Any platform that > has > > them would be 3.0 or later. (And more important, any platform that has > them > > would have an API level that is at least that of Honeycomb.) > > > > Rumors, so much fun. :p > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Kevin Duffey <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > There is a 2.4 in the works if the rumor mill is correct, from my > > > understanding of potentially bad sources, 2.4 will be a sort of reduced > > > honeycomb for phones, hopefully giving it the same UI but perhaps a few > > > different things? I am really curious how this is going to play out. > > > Naturally the apple fanboys are shouting fragmentation again, but I am > > > really interested in the UI differences between 3.0 and any new version > for > > > phones that come out. Will phones go the way of tablets, no buttons, > same > > > UI, etc? I personally hope so, the 3.0 UI looks fantastic. > > > > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > >> My initial reaction was that it was an homage to Spinal Tap. > > > > >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Ed Burnette <[email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > >> > 11? Does that mean the next 2.x release will be API level 10 and > that > > >> > there will only be one more 2.x release with API changes? Or am I > > >> > reading too much into it? I was wondering how that numbering hiccup > > >> > was going to be handled. > > > > >> > On Feb 7, 3:01 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> >> I don't know why it says that about minSdkVersion. The value of > > >> >> minSdkVersion doesn't matter; all that matters is that > > >> >> targetSdkVersion="Honeycomb". (Or 11 in the final API.) > > > > >> > -- > > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > >> > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > >> > To post to this group, send email to > > >> [email protected] > > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > >> > [email protected] > > >> > For more options, visit this group at > > >> >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > >> -- > > >> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > > >>http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguy > > >>http://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > > >> Android 2.3 Programming Books:http://commonsware.com/books > > > > >> -- > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > >> Groups "Android Developers" group. > > >> To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > >> [email protected] > > >> For more options, visit this group at > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > -- > > Dianne Hackborn > > Android framework engineer > > [email protected] > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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