Concerning your proposal of conditional compilation: I had an interesting conversation with someone who had worked at Javasoft for many years. I asked him specifically what they were thinking when they decided not to include conditional compilation in Java. His answer was that the proper Java, OOP approach to the main use of conditional compilation, accomodating a variety of platforms, is different implementations of the same interface.
Now concerning your example, beta vs. non-beta, personally, I would not dream of making this distinction by using conditional compilation. Rather, this is a natural task for revision control: once the Beta has been released, that code must be checked in/committed to a definite revision in the depository, so that you can revert to it at any time. OTOH, using the computer's camera as the emulator's camera sounds like a great idea. On May 19, 2:41 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think Google should make an effort to improve the android developer > tools. Here I write some things I think need to take in account: > > - Fix problems of communication between IDE and emulators > - Add support to conditional compilation #IF,#ELSE,#ENDIF (I wan't to > have 2 versions in the same proyect ... beta and non beta, free and > paid, etc.) > - Add support to add custom views to viewlist in IDE > - Is there any way to add voice recognition? It is a feature that I > would love to have to experiment with, but I can't since I don't have > an Android mobile yet. I would REALLY love to have it. > - Allow a downloadable version of Help in which we can search ... in > one document to easy the things. (It is a shame, but I don't have > Internet at home). > - Update Help with in-help samples, more documented constants, add an > appendix to services, and messages and more internal stuff from the > OS. > - Add support to C/C++ by adapting the eclipse or using another IDE. I > feel guilty for wasting so many resources by using an intermediate > code. I would not like to have a 1GHz processor and use it as if it > where a 100MHz. And yes, leakage memory problems in C, C++ ... it is a > problem, but it is worth the effort, and having in count how much code > there is for C/C++ > - I would be nice that I could use the camera of my Computer in the > emulator :) > > Thanks in advance, > Ricardo A.B. > :) > PS. If you agree sign up please or add things you see it would be > useful to have. > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
