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 handsets still in the wild with 1.5, get a Hero. This will also help you test against Sense UI (HTC proprietary extensions). There are tons of Heros out there, and they have their own radio quirks so this is a useful phone to have. For the 2.*, slightly flaky radio (in my experience) and Motorola extensions get a Droid. For the LG extensions you could also get a GW620 but these are pretty rare. The LG handsets also have low RAM. For high res screens and 2.* there is of course the beautiful Nexus One. Re. versions of course you can flash anything onto anything but there is no substitute for the actual binaries consumers are using. This chart is a very useful resource: http://www.androphones.com/all-android-phones.php Jim On 11 March 2010 16:35, Yahel <kaye...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 should either just avoid it. > Will making your app works on the Droid automagically makes it work on > more standard devices(hero, magic) or will it break on those. > > Just like when developing for the web, if you write your code against > IE then it will usually works on other browsers, but not the other way > around :D > > I would think that the fact that the Droid has more constraints it > makes you write better, no not better, more compatible code across all > devices. > > But just wanted to let you know. > > Have fun coding. > > Yahel > > -- > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- 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
