[android-developers] Re: What phone to buy for development?

2010-03-11 Thread Natanael Arndt
Am 11.03.10 15:24, schrieb Mark Murphy: Natanael Arndt wrote: Hello, I want to start developing an application for android and want to buy a phone for this task. But I don't really know, which one would be the best. I've heard of the ADP2 from Google, which is nearly the same as the HTC Magic.

[android-developers] Re: What phone to buy for development?

2010-03-11 Thread Natanael Arndt
Am 11.03.10 15:42, schrieb Mark Murphy: Natanael Arndt wrote: is it also possible to install an other Android version on a consumer phone, e.g the version from here[1] if I don't want the vodafone branding on the HTC Magic? Not usually. You can "root" some phones and install alternative firmwa

[android-developers] Re: What phone to buy for development?

2010-03-11 Thread Yahel
Just to add a nuance here, any phone will do but some are noticibly more prone to weird behaviors like the Motorola Droid for example which for a lot of us is a nightmare but is one of the most used in the US according to the statistics of "Radar Now". So I'm not sure how to handle that, you shoul

[android-developers] Re: What phone to buy for development?

2010-03-11 Thread Dan S
Well tattoo is ok but the 'dev tools app' doesn't work on it, which prevents you from doing certain dev work http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/9c57df28e4164737/b20202476f6b02f3 Dan On Mar 11, 5:39 pm, Jim Blackler wrote: > If you want to see what your app loo

Re: [android-developers] Re: What phone to buy for development?

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Murphy
Natanael Arndt wrote: > is it also possible to install an other Android version on a consumer > phone, e.g the version from here[1] if I don't want the vodafone > branding on the HTC Magic? Not usually. You can "root" some phones and install alternative firmware (e.g., OpenEclair.com). -- Mark M

Re: [android-developers] Re: What phone to buy for development?

2010-03-11 Thread Jim Blackler
If you want to see what your app looks like with QVGA (and appears in the Market for QVGA users) get a Tattoo. I strongly recommend developing on a low-end phone. If it works on that, it's all a bonus thereafter. Tattoo is currently on 1.6. To test (relatively) low RAM, and 1.6, get a G1. To test

Re: [android-developers] Re: What phone to buy for development?

2010-03-11 Thread Jim Blackler
There might be some broken stuff but I've debugged with mine no problem. Mind you mine is a developer unit so that could explain that. Jim On 11 March 2010 19:19, Dan S wrote: > Well tattoo is ok but the 'dev tools app' doesn't work on it, which > prevents you from doing certain dev work > > h