On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Bryan Ashby <nuskoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Excellent, thank you. > > Google: Would still love to hear more about the possible future of these > sorts of (needed!) apps... >
I honestly don't see what you expect to be said. The Android team has never released their plans for APIs until they are actually stable. It's sort of risky to promise things that might not materialize. While I agree this sort of functionality is useful, I personally do *not* believe it belongs in Android. I do believe, however, that it belongs in vendor specific mods, that have custom apps. Why? Because vanilla Android shouldn't be tasked with these kinds of extensions (personal opinion, mostly..). It's hard to design these kinds of things, because for many people this might be considered bloatware. I agree that it's a useful feature, no doubt, but I believe that it doesn't believe at the app level (no app should be able to modify the system behavior, seems to be an Android maxim at this point!), and not in the vanilla system either. This seems like something that has a lot of design decisions associated with it, and for Google to maintain it would be very hectic logistically. I suspect that it's not completely implausible that this will eventually appear in vanilla Android, but I find it somewhat unlikely, just based off of the kinds of decisions I've seen made in the platform to date. kris -- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
