On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Streets Of Boston <flyingdutc...@gmail.com> wrote: > True and not true. > > If google thinks that making an XNA like framework could enhance > Android's adoption and device sales enough to bring more ad-revenues/ > SaaS-revenues (because more phones would be around if such a framework > existed), then google could be interested in creating such framework. > > However, if the potiential return on such a framework is not large > enough, then they won't do it. >
You are of course correct, though I firmly believe spending lots of time speculating on such things will 100% fail to actually get the work done. There is also the question of whether Google are the ideal company to produce such a framework. Microsoft have invested a lot in DirectX and their XBox projects, they have the experience and the partners to make it work. What experience do Google have in the games industry? Personally I think they are stretching themselves enough with their shoulder barging into the mobile market, without trying to dive into the centre of the extremely competitive games market. Having said that, the Android platform does need to compete in this field. This seems like the perfect opportunity for a start-up, or an established games development company, to build a native framework and contribute it upstream. Mario's library might be a good starting point for this - as well as a technical evaluation of the other libraries/engines out there (such as Rokon by StickyCoding). The way to move forward would be to actively pursue a solution though, rather than mull around the topic passing notes to Google like we were in the Peoples' Front of Judea. :) -- 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
