I have spent my HTC magic for a year. So far, I am happy about that. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Kevin Duffey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am not sure about the emulator menu button to unlock it being a bug... > > The one bug that really bothers me is the multi touch issue on different > devices. I am not sure if it's been resolved, but last I read, it was > impossible to make games with multi-touch controls due to an issue where > after releasing the first touch point, then touching again it would register > as the second touch point. From what I recall, someone on the android team > said it was a hardware issue, yet, it appears on at least three different > hardware platforms. I would think that would garner some major interest and > a fix in 2.2 at the very latest, but not sure if it was or not. Still > waiting for my 2.2 update for my moto droid. Supposedly sometime this month, > but I am guessing next year before 2.2 gets released by Verizon. > > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 2:25 PM, [email protected] < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> It seems that Android is very buggy compared not only to the iPhone, >> but to pretty much any other software. It's not just minor bugs either >> - pretty much every developer will come across many serious bugs. Some >> examples: >> >> - When you run the "sdk setup.exe", the very first thing that happens >> is that it informs you that it can't connect using https, so you have >> to change the options to use 'http' instead. This appears to be a bug >> in the .exe rather than any kind of user issue because the https url >> works fine in the browser and this error seems to affect everyone. >> Sure, it's trivial to work around (just do a google search and you >> figure it out in 5 seconds), but the user shouldn't have to do that. >> It makes it look unprofessional. >> >> - When you view a TabWidget in the layout editor it crashes. >> >> - Every time you run an app in the emulator, it starts off with the >> screen locked so you need to press the Menu key. >> >> - Various socket bugs (or perhaps all the same bug) related to >> IOException not happening. Even something as simple as just trying to >> connect to a remote host that is not listening will cause it to hang >> instead of immediately returning an error. >> >> All of these bugs have been logged for months (some by me, some by >> other people) with no indication of any fix. >> >> At the moment I'm just using the emulator, but I'm wondering if the >> phones themselves are this buggy or if all the bugs are just in the >> development environment and emulator. >> >> -- >> 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Regards, Michael Leung http://www.itblogs.info http://www.michaelleung.info -- 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
