[android-porting] Re: Hardware profiles / requirements

2009-05-02 Thread Andrei
> We have tried to design things to be able to address a relatively wide range > of > devices, but we are perfectly happy to accept constraints on the hardware we > run to avoid compromising other important things like usabilityand > consistence. Understood. However, the temptation to design a

[android-porting] Re: Hardware profiles / requirements

2009-04-15 Thread David Turner
5-way navigation means either one of: - a DPad made of 5 up/down/left/right/center buttons - a clickable trackball (4 directions + 'click' event) 5 application keys means: Home / Back / Call / End Call / Menu buttons Strictly speaking what matters is that these correspond to different kernel-lev

[android-porting] Re: Hardware profiles / requirements

2009-04-14 Thread taroviva
Hi, Dianne, In hardware requirements, what does the sentence "5-way navigation with 5 application keys, ..." mean? Does it mean "5-way navigation keys and 5 application keys, ..."? Regards, Taro On 4月3日, 午前10:07, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > This really depends on whether you are talking about And

[android-porting] Re: Hardware profiles / requirements

2009-04-02 Thread Dianne Hackborn
This really depends on whether you are talking about Android as a generic system, or Android and the current applications that run on it. If the latter: - Some kind of 5-way is currently required, though it would be feasible to drop this in the future (with an ability to know if a particular app