If you really look at the fact for Apple device manufacturer is one guy that is Apple. But that is the not the case for Android, if Google has multiple versions dont you think that it will become an issue for a developer in terms of testing the application in multiple device just in case if any of the OEM writes different layout library on top of Android for their Device?
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Kevin Duffey <andjar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apple's iPad was really just to support bigger screens, but had less > functionality than the iPhone os. The opposite is happening here.. Android > 3.0 is a much better UI and more features. That to me is one of the biggest > reasons Android tablets are going to beat iPads... not only is the UI more > tailored towards tablets and information at our fingertips, it's not quite > identical to small screen phone devices. We truly get a more tablet oriented > OS while still maintaining the ability to write code for both with.. as far > as I can figure out, no changes other than for screen resolution. > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Ed Burnette <ed.burne...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> The phone and tablet source trees have diverged temporarily but it's >> expected that the "I" version of Android will bring them back >> together. The version number hasn't been decided - it might become 3.1 >> or 3.5 or something else - just not 3.0. >> >> So when somebody says "Honeycomb is just for tablets and won't run on >> phones" they're just saying that a particular version of Android is >> just for tablets. There will be lots of versions after Honeycomb. >> Apple did something similar with iOS - they had an iPad only release >> and then a few months later came back with a phone-only release and >> finally they had a converged release. >> >> >> On Feb 14, 11:55 pm, Sivaprakash <sivaprakashshanmu...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > Read from few of the articles that Google has forked Android is it so ? >> > Which means I can not use 3.0 for my Phone application but only for >> Tablet? >> > >> > Thanks >> > Siva >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- - Prakash. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
