I just hope there's a phone besides the G1 that can do 3G on all of the frequencies by the time the second challenge rolls around. Also, it would be great if the APIs that were initially going to be in Android (specifically, in my case, Bluetooth and bluez) are actually in it by the time this happens. In addition, large applications would also be at a heavy disadvantage unless apps can be installed on SD cards or some future Android phone is released with a reasonable (4GB +) of internal memory.
Otherwise I fear it will be a niche competition with a couple of people making google maps derivative applications. I was very excited to make a novel application for the first challenge but had to stop working on it after the SDK update and it became clear that it wouldn't be possible. Looking in the git repo it appears that a lot of progress is being made to improve Android and I think the design choices being made are top notch keeping Android ahead of the game in terms of good technology. It also looks like the only (near-term) future hardware support is going to be the sapphire board, which isn't quite what I'd hope for in a 2009 feature phone. -E On Mar 19, 2:39 pm, Dan Morrill <morri...@google.com> wrote: > Oops. Looks like that page was collateral damage when we did the move to > developer.android.com. We're looking into it; thanks for pointing it out. > At any rate the content that would be there refers only to the first > Developer Challenge. > Regarding the second Developer Challenge, it definitely isn't canceled but > we haven't announced plans for it yet. We said we would by last year (sorry > about that), but we're still working on how to structure it. The world is > quite a bit different now than it was when we ran the first ADC, so we want > to make sure the new rules/structure make sense, and we are of course taking > into consideration everyone's experiences with the first ADC. The second > ADC will definitely not be a clone of the first ADC. > > We expect to have all this finalized and announce rules within a couple > months. The event itself will likely run in the second half of the year. > > - Dan > > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com> wrote: > > > Very very recently though. Googling for "android developer challenge" > > still brings up the 404ed page as the top result. > > > Al. > > > Anonymous Anonymous wrote: > > >http://developer.android.com/ > > > try in here.. its moved i guess > > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Eelke Folmer <eelke.fol...@gmail.com > > > <mailto:eelke.fol...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > This (http://code.google.com/android/adc.html) gives a 404 which > > is > > > weird for a google site. > > > Is this challenge cancelled? I hope not...... > > > -- > > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > > ====== > > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > > subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
