> Planned? My guess is no, only because few applications need charting and
I beg to differ. I think a lot of business applications, science tools and even some system/network utilities could really benefit from a builtin charting api. It would make developing such applications a breeze and with consistent (and themeable) charting graphs Android would present itself as a prime business platform. > the bigger the operating system, the more expensive it is to put it on a > phone. But, I could be wrong. Since flash memory in mobile devices is now at 256-512 MiB standard I think an investment of 1-2 MiB for a lean charting API would be well worth it instead of each app developer struggling to create his or her own charts which thus wouldn't look consistent on a systemwide scale or resign from implementing charts alltogether, leaving a lot to desire in the resulting app usability. Just look at WinMob for a lot of bad examples. > Ummm...OK. There are plenty of Java charting solutions out there, some > for Swing, some that generate graphics on the server side, that you are > welcome to port to work with Android and its Canvas model. Yes that would be one way to do it, but my goal would be for (most) all charts in Android applications to deliver a consistent user experience and the only way to make sure we'll come close to meeting it in my opinion would be to integrate one suitable charting engine into the Android core. I think at the moment Android lays too much focus on the "cool" gagdet apps with location based services and I just hope dearly that the gps power drain won't completely ruin the usability of all those applications. On the other hand the classic reason for buying an expensive phone/ data plan is business use and visualizing data in charts for quick analysis is a typical requirement in this scenario. That's my opinion. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
