keeping things terse: platform = creating phones (2nd party) SDK = creating apps that run on phones (3rd party)
JBQ On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM, cafffiene<cafffi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What is the reason that some people work at the platform layer, > instead of just the SDK? > > I have done some work in both, and not surprisingly, development is > faster and easier in the SDK (for me), due to books, number of > developers, build times, etc. Of course, it depends on what you're > doing. > > The advantage I can see to working at the platform layer, is to be > able to modify some core apps, such as Email, Contacts, etc, without > having to re-write those apps (to my knowledge, you can't just extend > those apps, and work in the SDK). However, once you've worked at the > platform layer, you have to maintain your branch for future releases, > which sounds like a lot of work. > > Perhaps some good work at the platform layer could get accepted and > included in the next release, which would be very cool. > > Are there other reasons for working at the platform layer, instead of > the SDK? > > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Software Engineer, Android Open-Source Project, Google. Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further warning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
