Well said. I tried navigating the Maps app without touch and its useless. Panning the map is nice and all, but without touch I wasn't able to select a pin. I think if the official Google Maps app doesn't currently support it, there's no reason for us third-party devs to be going out of our way to achieve this.
-Nick On Apr 21, 1:29 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > I can more strongly say that today, to be able to ship an Android compatible > phone (and thus have Market), you need to have a touch screen. > > If/when at some point in the future devices without touch-screens are > considered to be Android compatible, appropriate work for existing third > party applications will be done, as we have done in the past: either having > some kind of compatibility so that they can still run with a decent > experience (as was done with the new density support), or applying filtering > so that those applications will not be visible to users until specifically > updated to support the new kind of device (as was done for example for > devices with smaller screens). > > While making your app work well with a DPAD is nice, I don't recommend > developers go out of their way today to try to make a touch-oriented UI work > without a touch screen. That time would be better spent on improving the > touch experience. > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Zigurd <[email protected]> wrote: > > All current Android phones have touch-screens. > > > However, Android's UI is designed to be operated using the d-pad, > > moving a "focus" and using a select button as well as by touch. I > > think all the standard apps that are part of most Android phones can > > work without touch. > > > If, for example, you consider an Android in-car system with steering > > wheel buttons, or an Android TV as possible target platforms, you > > would want your apps to function without touch, too, and should > > include non-touch test cases in your test plan. > > > On Apr 21, 6:06 am, Sean Hodges <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If you are a beginner, you should really be posting to the > > > android-beginners list. > > > > I believe all of the current Android phones have touch screens. > > > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:24 AM, [email protected] > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > a simple question from a beginner - how many of Android phones > > > > support touchscreen applications? > > > > > Angus > > > > > -- > > > > 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%2Bunsubs > > > > [email protected]> > > > > 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 [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<android-developers%2Bunsubs > > > [email protected]> > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > > 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 [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-developers%2Bunsubs > > [email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > -- > 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] > For more options, visit this group > athttp://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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
