Not quite true, Ian. I am trying to fix a bug in an app I released over a year ago, and my debug.keystore certificate has expired. Given that this is the default behaviour (365 day expiry), most developers are not going to be able to use their old API keys to continue development for very long.
I need to make a tiny change, and to do this I will be forced to upgrade to v2, which means I can no longer support Android 1.6. This will immediately cut out 8% of my users, who will loudly complain and give me bad reviews in Google Play. They are not able to upgrade because of fragmentation, and are stuck with an old version of Android, which up to now I have been able to support. I didn't see the "clear communications" that this would be deprecated either, and I pay special attention to emails from Google. I WAS told by Google that the v2 web-based maps would be deprecated and DID update them in time. While I might expect something like this from the cowboys at Facebook, I hold Google to a higher standard and I am shocked and disappointed. It sounds like you're actually from Google, so do you have any solution for us developers who are trying to support Android, but who have existing keys with expired debug certificates? In any case, you appear to be assuming that we shut down a service without > informing its users. This is not the case. We stopped accepting new users > into a service which we intend to keep online for a period of several > years. No existing users were affected by this change. No users who > obtained an API key before beginning development (as they were clearly > instructed to do) should have been affected. > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
