Hi, Many thanks Dan for saying something about ADC II ( at last :-)
Regards On Mar 20, 11:21 am, Eric Friesen <ericfrie...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
