On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Ian Ni-Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > You might also want to keep in mind that this is not a "monitored" list in > the sense that it's someone's job to read and respond to posts. The > engineers who read this list are doing so out of the goodness of their > hearts, in their spare time.
I get that but ideally, it should not be necessary for anyone to donate their spare time to support. In case Google is interested in having people develop for Android, there *should* be people whose job is to read and respond to posts so that other people don't have to do so in their spare time. Frankly, after 2 years of developing for Android I still haven't been able to figure out for sure what Google's position towards developers is. Is developing for Android supported by Google? Or maybe just encouraged? Discouraged? Don't care? Does Google welcome say just productivity apps and doesn't care for system utils or games? Or the other way around? My overall experience developing with Android SDK is definitely good, however docs are sometimes lacking and changes are frequent. To figure out finer points about systems, or interactions between subsystems, you can search through platform source code - or ask someone who knows. To encourage the former is probably not in Google's interest as building on knowledge you get from source code you're relying on undocumented behaviour almost by definition. > There are people whose job it is to answer Android engineering questions. > They hang out on Stack Overflow, because they feel like they're able to be > more effective and efficient using Stack Overflow. Seriously? I had no idea Stack Overflow had anything to do with official Google support for Android SDK devs. Looks like I've been asking my questions on the wrong forum all along. Cool. :-( -- 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
