On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:34 AM, JP <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 8, 7:57 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Dev phones" are for people devising alternative firmware. They are > > not necessary for ordinary Android SDK development. > ... but sure are a good idea to have. We've seen a selection of "dogs" > where USB drivers weren't available or LogCat wouldn't pick anything > up because the device wouldn't provide any output on the USB port... I > also like the presence of dev devices so scope can be established when > writing proposals, along the line of "... tested on the Android > reference devices Google Ion and Nexus One." > It is required for a device to ship with Market that it full support development and debugging over USB. If you find a device with Market where this doesn't work, please let us know -- we aggressively pursue CDD incompatibilities to get them fixed (it is a requirement for someone to ship with Market to fix any such issues that are found). That said, yes the dev devices are partly there to be a benchmark for how that platform is expected to behave. (Though for most cases you can test against the base platform using the emulator as well.) I sometimes like to refer to them as "Android reference devices." :) -- 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
