On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com> wrote:
> Just to go a bit further on this, I'd hope you'd be implementing at > least a subset of http://desktop.google.com/plugins/ > It's Google code, it'd bring a lot of widgets/gadgets onto Android in a > short time frame, and would lessen the learning curve for many people. I suspect that just blindly supporting HTML-based gadgets in the home screen would be less than desirable. This would mean having (multiple) instances of the web browser running in the home screen process, displaying gadgets that were designed purely for a desktop environment -- if you look at existing gadgets there are very few that will take less than the full size of the available screen, if they even fit on the screen at all. And you can be sure that the vast majority aren't going to be very memory efficient, running in a web browser in a process that also has a key part of the global user interaction so wants to remain running as much as possible. Plus they are designed to be interacted with using a mouse, and would now be running in an environment where you use your finger and inside of a container where finger gestures are already dedicated to being able to scroll and drag. So it's not really so straight-forward. :} -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
