I agree, you should have been notified. I do not know why you weren't. I don't understand the issue with the debug certificate. Do you not have a valid release key certificate that you can use for development? Ian
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Craig Payne <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/android-developers/R2dwCWyC3TQ/unsubscribe?hl=en > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Ian Ni-Lewis Staff Developer Programs Engineer Android Developer Relations -- -- 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.
