On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Kieran <kieran.flem...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Android 2 SDK released: 27th Oct
> Droid released: 6th Nov
> So that's 9 days (with a weekend) to test our apps at the new
> resolution, make any necessary fixes, then deploy to the Market. I
> don't think that's enough, and ultimately it's the Droid users that
> suffer.
>

Android 1.6 was released earlier with multiple screen support being one of
the big new features.  This is not a new feature in 2.0, and in fact there
will be devices shipping on 1.6 with different screens (I believe the Tattoo
QVGA device is an example).  We also started beating the drum as soon as 1.6
was available for people to update their apps, telling developers that there
would soon be devices appearing with different screens.  For example:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/10/support-for-additional-screen.html

Not that I think it is okay to have so little time between the SDK and
devices shipping, but this particular case of supporting different screen
sizes is a bad example of the issue.  The new contacts API would be better
if you want to point at something.

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Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
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