Is this sort of like the problems of Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and so on? It
sounds like it is.
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From: "Cara Quinn" <caraqu...@caraquinn.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Any Accessible Android Games
Thomas,
another thing to consider is the level of accessibility features that any
given user will have, based on the OS they are running.
I.E. one user may be running android 4.4 and another user may be running
something considerably earlier than that. Both may be usable but not equal
in terms of ease of accessibility, so accessible games would need to take
this situation into account, as not all android phones can easily run the
same OS versions.
LookTel has been wanting to release our software on Android for a while now
and this has been the issue that has consistently been a deciding factor to
wait. The differences in implementations of accessibility in the OS
versions.
The last thing you want to deal with is wider support issues rather than a
simpler support model. While Apple has its own little quirks to deal with
they're so minor in comparison that they're pretty much non-existent.
Just to give an example, while in the current version of Android you can do
a two-finger tap and hold for speech to start, you were not always able to
do this. So for people wanting to use our apps, this itself, was a
non-starter because it meant that someone may need sighted help or need to
go through a bit of work just to get the OS to talk. There's something to be
said for the easy button! :) Know what I mean?! :)
I'm personally very interested in Android both for myself and for LookTel
but for now, iOS is definitely where I'm at…
Anyway, hope this helps. and if anyone has any corrections or other
insights, please do chime in?
Smiles,
Cara :)
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On Nov 9, 2013, at 7:39 AM, Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Eleanor,
Thanks for that insightful post. I had heard that developing apps and
games for Android could be difficult, something to do with different
jvm implementations, but I had no idea that it was that frustrating
and complicated. I am reading a guide right now, and the author made
no mention of this at all. He made it sound like developing apps for
Android is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Follow the steps in the guide and the
reader would be well on his/her way to making apps and games for
Android.
Cheers!
On 11/9/13, Eleanor <elea...@7128.com> wrote:
Thomas was talking about developing Android games. One of the reasons
that there aren't as many accessible Android games as there are IOS
games is that the emulaters that developers use to write these games are
extremely sloooooow. John has been playing with one and is frustrated
with it. Since you have a lot of different Android phones with
different specs, it is hard to develop code that will work on more than
one phone unless you use emulators. So, if you decide to go that route,
expect frustration!
Eleanor Robinson
7-128 Software
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