Android is buggy, yes, I totally agree with you. The most buggy release is Froyo, in Froyo, I cannot use Java NIO selector anymore, but it works fine in previous releases.
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:25 AM, [email protected] <[email protected] > wrote: > It seems that Android is very buggy compared not only to the iPhone, > but to pretty much any other software. It's not just minor bugs either > - pretty much every developer will come across many serious bugs. Some > examples: > > - When you run the "sdk setup.exe", the very first thing that happens > is that it informs you that it can't connect using https, so you have > to change the options to use 'http' instead. This appears to be a bug > in the .exe rather than any kind of user issue because the https url > works fine in the browser and this error seems to affect everyone. > Sure, it's trivial to work around (just do a google search and you > figure it out in 5 seconds), but the user shouldn't have to do that. > It makes it look unprofessional. > > - When you view a TabWidget in the layout editor it crashes. > > - Every time you run an app in the emulator, it starts off with the > screen locked so you need to press the Menu key. > > - Various socket bugs (or perhaps all the same bug) related to > IOException not happening. Even something as simple as just trying to > connect to a remote host that is not listening will cause it to hang > instead of immediately returning an error. > > All of these bugs have been logged for months (some by me, some by > other people) with no indication of any fix. > > At the moment I'm just using the emulator, but I'm wondering if the > phones themselves are this buggy or if all the bugs are just in the > development environment and emulator. > > -- > 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 > -- 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
