"I'm personally involved in the relevant discussions..." That phrase alone gives me some hope... :).
Al. -----Original Message----- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jean-Baptiste Queru Sent: 24 March 2009 15:57 To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-developers] Re: Cupcake coming in April? Where is the SDK? I'm personally involved in the relevant discussions, so you can rest assured that the people who need to know do know already. JBQ On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com> wrote: > > JBQ, > > Can you pass up the chain that the 'phrase > > "...you can be sure that you'll have an official SDK for a > cupcake-originated release as soon as possible." > > should be planned to be a point in time (hopefully a couple of weeks) > before a carrier releases a device with it on. > > I'm sure you're aware there's no bigger recipe for pain than when the > first people to test applications on a new release of a platform are > users who are trying out a new 'phone in a shop. > > Al. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: android-developers@googlegroups.com > [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Jean-Baptiste Queru > Sent: 24 March 2009 15:39 > To: android-developers@googlegroups.com > Subject: [android-developers] Re: Cupcake coming in April? Where is the SDK? > > > 1.1 was essentially a update of a few Google-proprietary bits on top > of the same platform as 1.0. > From the point of view of the Android platform (and therefore of the > SDK as well), the differences between 1.0 and 1.1 are extremely minor. > > Cupcake is a branch name, it's not a released version. A future > numbered release will be cut from the cupcake branch, but that product > isn't ready yet, and therefore there can be no SDK yet. > > As cupcake contains significant platform changes compared to 1.0/1.1, > you can be sure that you'll have an official SDK for a > cupcake-originated release as soon as possible. > > JBQ > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:16 AM, tauntz <tau...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I just hope that this time the release date for the official SDK will >> be BEFORE the update hits the masses. Not like it was with the 1.1SDK >> - it was released way after 1.1 was released to end-users (the >> argument from Google was something in the lines of "Hey, this is a >> small release with no mayor changes so don't whine that you get it so >> late"). Maybe I'm the only one who thinks that this is ridiculous.. >> One of the reasons why we don't have the official 1.5 (or cupcake or >> however it will be officially called) SDK is that "It's not stable >> enough" - fair enough but I really hope that you guys @ Google will >> release it as soon as the code is stable enough (eg the code is >> tested and ready to be released to the operators). That would give us >> a week (maybe more) before the operators push it to the end-users. >> >> And don't come with the "you can build your own SDK from the >> opensource tree if you want" - the last releases didn't come from the >> opensource tree so even if I wanted, i couldn't build the SDK based >> on the code that's shipped to the end-users. And even if this release >> will actually come from the public tree, you can't expect all app >> developers to build their own SDK, can you? We need an official SDK - >> and we need it as soon as the tree is stable enough (and way before >> it's pushed to the carriers/end-users) >> >> >> Tauno >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:38 AM, AndroidApp <zl25dre...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Not if you stay anonymous (hint, hint) ;-) >>> >>> On Mar 23, 7:58 pm, Anonymous Anonymous >>> <firewallbr...@googlemail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> " Someone from Google? " makes it official i guess :D >>>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:47 AM, AndroidApp <zl25dre...@gmail.com> > wrote: >>>> >>>> > Can someone capable just compile the SDK and post it online for >>>> > everyone? Someone from Google? I dont really care if it's not >>>> > official, i just dont want to download the source tree just to >>>> > build the SDK, plus i need to do the tricks you mentioned to make >>>> > it work on windows. >>>> >>>> > On Mar 23, 1:11 pm, Marco Nelissen <marc...@android.com> wrote: >>>> > > I certainly hope there aren't "a lot" of applications that use >>>> > > reflection and private APIs. >>>> >>>> > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:59 AM, zl25drexel >>>> > > <zl25dre...@gmail.com> >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>> > > > Cupcake is coming, and as you know it will break a lot of >>>> > > > apps in the market, those that use reflection & private api. >>>> > > > So where is the Cupcake SDK/emulator for us to try our apps? >>>> >>>> > > > I know we can download the source codes and build it, and I >>>> > > > know apps wont break if they dont use undocumented api, blah >>>> > > > blah blah, but we should get an official SDK/emulator for >>>> > > > cupcake, dont you think, google? >>> > >>> >> >> > >> > > > > -- > Jean-Baptiste M. 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