I'll have to stand in Dianne's side in this case. As some of you may
have noted a while back I took the time to ensure one of my apps was
"Google TV ready" as in fully working without a touch screen. For
everything except the map it took a whole of two lines of code per
Activity and in the map (where I'd say either the docs are wrong or
there is some kind of bug/limitation) it took more like 10. These
changes did not call for separate APKs, in fact even the standard phones
(in particular those with a hw keyboard and/or trackball) benefit from
the changes. So to be critical to myself, I should really have looked
into this earlier - long before Google TV was even considered. Perhaps
this is the real issue here: many apps are already taking too many short
cuts, but it doesn't show up much until now when things like the touch
screen may go away?
Does Angry Birds work without touch? I'm pretty sure it COULD.
My few cents / Jonas
On 12/02/2010 01:26 AM, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
Um. People. Google TV does not have Market on it. This didn't happen
by accident. The platform isn't yet ready to give apps and their users
a good experience on such devices. You know, a deliberate decision to
not cause unreasonable pain for developers. As has been the case at
pretty much every point the range of compatible devices for Market has
been expanded.
It is a little premature to start freaking out about Google TV and
making up stories (OMG we'll need to maintain multiple .apks!) about how
horrible things are.
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