Agree... 100% :) -Kumar Bibek http://kbeanie.com
On Aug 27, 5:53 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > I would suggest making the source available to developers for them to use. > You will get much more immediate gratification -- if you want to do this > through a patch to the source, you are looking at maybe 6 months for it to > appear in a release, and another year or more after that until it is widely > available enough on devices that apps can use it. > > We are also fairly restrictive in accepting these kinds of patches. If > every widget that would be useful to some apps was added to the platform, > the amount of code there would be *huge* and require tons more work to > maintain. Over the last year, for widgets and stuff that doesn't need to be > in the framework, we have moved to automatically not accepting them in the > framework. They can be in a static library or something else that the apps > that need them can use. We'll start consider adding something to the > framework if it is being used in more than a handful of the apps that are > shipping with the base Android platform. > > > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:51 PM, nbadal <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm almost completed with a DatePickerPreference that I've built (a > > preference widget I was suprised didnt already exist), and would > > really like to share this function with every developer. > > I know the process for submitting patches to the android open-source > > project, but I was wondering how I would go about adding a whole new > > feature to android that I have made, or if they even accept them. Is > > there any way to go about doing this? > > > -- > > 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 > > -- > 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 at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
