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What? Dealing with a physical or a software keyboard is well defined in Android. Dealing with rotation is a foundational element of the system. Dealing with dif
by ergo98 16y ago
What? Dealing with a physical or a software keyboard is well defined in Android. Dealing with rotation is a foundational element of the system. Dealing with different resolutions is a foundational element of the system.
>e.g. this app requires builtin keyboard, et.c
Again...what? Android provides EXACTLY this functionality.
Gosling lost me when he decided to essentially cover-his-technology-ass with the Android remark. "Fragmentation" in the Android ecosystem is almost entirely simple version fragmentation, and even that is rapidly resolving. On specific handsets there are extremely few device-specific edge conditions, like a peculiar 3D performance profile on some devices. This is nothing like the absolute disaster that J2ME was, where they tried so hard to abstract everything to the absolute lowest of the lowest common denominator, and what was left was simply trash.
- CrazedGeek 16y agoThere's a few oddities that come from the custom UIs, which make it kind of annoying if you want to design a good looking, consistent-with-the-rest-of-the-phone experience. Admittedly, this isn't a huge problem, and indeed is only a problem with a few of them (Sense UI, mostly), but since almost every manufacturer has a custom UI, it can be a pain.
- roel_v 16y agoI don't understand this point. I have an HTC Desire with Sense, i downloaded a bunch of apps from the app Market over the last few weeks, and I never noticed any differences in UI between the build-in spps and the ones I downloaded. Have you ever had to make adjustments to your apps to make them look good/OK on, e.g., Sense? What kind of adjustments were they?
- ergo98 16y agoI hold the same questions, both as an Android developer and as a Android app consumer -- Sense plays zero part in my development, and as a user while it changes the home screen and offers some widgets, it does nothing to change individual apps. Nor does Motoblur, or Sony's Rebecca or whatever they call it, or LG's....
- malkia 16y agoRightfully downvoted. I got carried over. I have the first T-Mobile G1 and I can't update the OS, can't download new apps... That makes me sad :)