The animated wall papers is part of the SDK tho..right? I have yet to get 2.1 on my droid or emulator.. from the few blogs I've read about Nexus one, I thought this was part of 2.1 SDK, not just for Nexus.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com>wrote: > Please don't go off making assumptions and getting all disgruntled about > them. > > If nothing else, the new version of home does not yet support all apps in > landscape (it wasn't needed for Nexus), so it is not generally usable yet. > > As far as "apps which interact with the Home screen (like widgets and > wallpapers) can't be relied upon to behave the same in the emulator as on a > real handset", I have no idea what you are talking about. Application > interaction with the home screen is very limited, and most of the > significant interactions (setting and showing wallpapers, widgets) are > defined by the platform, not the home app. Is there some specific > interaction issue you have had with the home screen that has varied across > devices? > > Plus the new home screen is a fork of the standard one, and so doesn't have > any different behavior that apps could be aware of. > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:11 AM, String <sterling.ud...@googlemail.com>wrote: > >> On Jan 12, 8:56 am, Kevin Duffey <andjar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Does that mean we wont see the new interface on Moto Droid when it's >> > released with the 2.1 update? I thought it was all part of 2.1. >> >> It was mentioned in a different thread that the Home app is different >> in the emulator than on hardware phones. Presumably the emulator has >> the "stock" Android Home implementation? This difference wasn't >> obvious in previous releases - e.g., the 2.0 emulator's Home was >> visually indistinguishable from the Droid's - but it certainly is in >> 2.1. IOW, the N1's Home screen is another custom UI, like Sense or >> MotoBLUR. >> >> This is disappointing from two directions. First, it means that >> devices which we took to be bone stock Android - like Droid, and now >> the N1 - aren't really. They ALL have a custom Home UI, and apps which >> interact with the Home screen (like widgets and wallpapers) can't be >> relied upon to behave the same in the emulator as on a real handset. >> >> Second, it means that UI improvements (like the 3D effect in the N1's >> Launcher) aren't part of the OS, and can't be used in other apps >> without some serious hackery. This will unfortunately lead to a less >> consistent user experience, and a perpetuation of the criticisms that >> "Android apps aren't as pretty as iPhone's". Which doesn't bother me >> per se, but it does seem to be important from a PR standpoint. >> >> String >> >> -- >> 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > 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. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > > -- > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >
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