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That's surprising. I always thought Android was terrible for development because of a lack of dogfooding but it sounds like they actually try to use it.
by swiley 6y ago
That's surprising. I always thought Android was terrible for development because of a lack of dogfooding but it sounds like they actually try to use it.
- sgtnoodle 6y agoAt the time at least, the extent of working on mobile devices seemed to be catching up on emails and messages, and calling into meetings. Google doesn't allow source code to be stored locally on mobile devices including laptops for security reasons. IT managed laptops can at least connect to some internal systems, and while I was there they rolled out tools to make it productive to code from laptops. As far as I know though, no one codes on an Android device. Maybe that's changed since I left. Google does in general do a pretty good job dogfooding, I think. All the things about Google services that drive folk crazy tend to drive Googlers more crazy by 10x. I still have a special hate for Drive's search functionality, for example...