I suppose it's too late, or perhaps too many wouldn't have joined up with google if they had done this, but it would have been nice if there was a guarantee from all devices that any app that runs on the emulator will run on devices. I've read not just in these emails, but on other forums as well the frustration of developers that get complaints and refunds or negative feedback because an app doesn't work on one device, but yet it works on others. It's impossible for developers to test their app on every device. I sure don't have thousands laying around to buy each device as it comes out to ensure that it works correctly. The emulator only goes so far and apparently not nearly far enough since many apps fail on some devices yet work fine on others. Is it because of device drivers for these devices that things are failing, or is it their custom build of Android for their device that is causing things to fail. How do we find out and/or avoid these issues? Like some said here, some sort of testing facility would be great.. but then I am required to pay air fair to fly to where ever they have one.. or pay a premium for testers to test it on those devices. Since the market allows for so little text, you can't really say much like "app works on devices 1,2,3,4..but not 5,6,7 yet". It's really too bad a detailed message can't be left and updated.. even better a forum like this where you can respond back and forth like we do here... limit it to 512 characters per response or something. It's all server stored, and users can scroll thru the responses, expand/hide, or choose to ignore them. It would go a long way in making it better for developers and the end users alike. But like I said before, Market is an android app as far as I know.. I've not really seen much in the way of updates in the past few months to it. Is it that hard for one developer at google or on the android team to continue to update the market app? Hell, open source that sucker and let us contribute to it.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Alberto <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not alone when it comes to the updating issue, check this article > out "Android’s Next Challange? iTunes | Linux Magazine - > http://goo.gl/gPzw"; > > However as Dianne explained yesterday there's not much Google can do > about this, since only manufacturers can release the updates for the > phones, after that, getting it from manufacturers to users is > relatively simple, so until the day comes that users can update the > phones on their own, like we do with PCs or iPhones there's not much > Google can do. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >
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