Another reason I don't beleive the CLIQ is a good development device: The CLIQ does not output Log.v() or Log.d() level logging via LogCat.
On Nov 9, 4:39 am, jarkman <jark...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dianne - we have a couple of problems on the CLIQ. > > In both cases, the APIs are technically working correctly, but the > resulting user experience is unfortunate, so these may not be exactly > what you are asking for. But, in case you are interested: > > (1) The CLIQ has a lot of contact data (from facebook and so on) that > is not visible through the Contact APIs. From our user's point of > view, that results in contacts who simply do not appear in our UI or > in contacts with phone numbers that we can't see. They see that > experience as broken. > > We have no workaround for that, apart from hoping that that the CLIQ > moves rapidly to 2.0. > > (2) The CLIQ has no LED colour control, so our LED-colour > configuration UI appears broken to our users. The docs do say that LED > colour support is optional, but without an API to query for colour > support we can't take the UI away automatically. > > We're fixing that with a special-case CLIQ detector, but that is > obviously not a good solution in a amrket with a lot of new phones > appearing. > > Thanks, > > Richard > > On Nov 7, 9:00 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > > > Can you give more detail? The APIs should work the same. If there are > > changes, we'd really like to know. > > > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:51 AM, nEx.Software > > <email.nex.softw...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > The CLIQ is not representative of a normal Android experience. It is > > > buggy, half of the components have been replaced by Motorola. They use > > > their own variants of some APIs. > > > > And, I certainly would not recommend it as a user device, personally. > > > As a user of the CLIQ I have been very, very disappointed. > > > > So, if you really want just a testing device I would choose something > > > the is not as heavily modified. If you also want to use it as your > > > actual phone, I would choose something less glitchy and more flexible. > > > > On Nov 7, 11:10 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:33 PM, nEx.Software > > > > <email.nex.softw...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > The CLIQ has 1.5 loaded, and it is NOT a good development phone. Trust > > > > > me. > > > > > What is wrong with it? Fwiw, one of our goals is that all Android > > > > compatible phones should also allow for the full standard development > > > > environment. > > > > > -- > > > > 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, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- > > 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, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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
