How did you determine you had " 95 people test my app for Round 1 judging, but 27 of those were "force closes" due to the 1.6 update. "
I have not been told anything? Where is this data? On Oct 6, 8:48 pm, bellapariah <bellapar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thread for developers to discuss problems with 1.6 update and effects > on ADC2. If you see other forums or articles on the issue or if you > are one of the unlucky developers affected by the the untimely 1.6 > update, please post is here! > > Releasing 1.6 in the middle of a contest is unacceptable. According to > the official terms and conditions: > > "a. SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES: To qualify for a Prize, an "Entry" to the > Challenge consists of an original application that is written using a > version of the Android Software Development Kit ("SDK") (available > athttp://developer.android.com) that validly executes on Android version > 1.5. The SDK contains instructions, documentation, and all necessary > tools to enable a Participant to build an Android application." > > My App as well as many other ADC2 apps worked fine on 1.5 but started > "force closing" after the 1.6 update. Programmers were told to develop > an application for 1.5, not 1.6, and were not given the tools or > opportunity to test our apps with 1.6. In my case, I have had 95 > people test my app for Round 1 judging, but 27 of those were "force > closes" due to the 1.6 update. This is because of an issue with a > Google API that was updated with 1.6. Here are links to other people > discussing the 1.6 issue: > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/7... > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/a... > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/5... > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > > http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=5d754... > > http://androidandme.com/2009/10/news/did-google-fumble-the-android-1-... > > http://polyclefsoftware.blogspot.com/ > > One suggestion would be to remove the last 25% of reviews of every app > in the contest (the ones most likely to have been affected by 1.6 > upgrades) to reduce the negative effects of the 1.6 release. > > How many others were affected? Any solutions to fix the problem? > > Shelby --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---