A lot of it boils down to "it worked for us". Really. For the build targets that are expected to work in the open-source cupcake tree (essentially emulator/release/generic), it didn't seem to work worse than its internal counterpart, at least through the limited smoke testing that we had time to do.
JBQ On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Muthu Ramadoss <[email protected]> wrote: > Why is the Cupcake build in a broken stage? Does that mean we are not > supposed to be working with it? > > take care, > Muthu Ramadoss. > > http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz +91-9840348914 > http://mobeegal.in - mobile search. redefined. > > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Dave Sparks <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Unfortunately, in reality cupcake is none of those things. >> >> I'm not sure what you mean by that. Cupcake is a stabilization branch >> for the next platform release. I agree we're not pushing changes out >> as quickly as we would like - we're working on it. The plan is to >> merge all changes from Cupcake to master except where there are >> changes in master that supersede the Cupcake change. >> >> We (the Android team) cannot discuss future deployments of Cupcake (or >> any other release) on G1 (or any other device). You need to take that >> up with the vendor. >> >> On Jan 7, 6:54 am, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote: >> > (Somewhat of a tangent.. but..) >> > >> > Unfortunately, in reality cupcake is none of those things. Its just an >> > internal tree that is occasionally synced out to a repo tree, and >> > sometimes >> > merged into master.. >> > >> > Probably at this point the only way to solve this is to rename the >> > internal >> > tree though, and call the 1.1 (or whatever) android release "cupcake". >> > (Thereby starting the horrible practice of random nouns as release >> > names..) >> > >> > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Dave Sparks <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > We need to differentiate between Cupcake the platform release and >> > > Cupcake running on a specific device such as the G1. >> > >> > > Preview size is supported in the current API, but ignored by the G1 >> > > device driver. I cannot get into specifics about the G1 device. >> > > Preview positioning works today on Cupcake and should work on the >> > > current G1 though I haven't test it. Preview does not work correctly >> > > in portrait mode due to orientation issues - we're discussing how best >> > > to solve that problem. >> > >> > > We're also discussing how best to expose hardware capabilities with >> > > OHA partners. This is not likely to be addressed fully in Cupcake, but >> > > we plan to address it in a future release. >> > >> > > On Dec 30 2008, 11:17 pm, blindfold <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > Will Cupcake also address current (SDK 1.0 r2) camera API issues >> > > > such >> > > > as the missing API methods for preview decoding, preview >> > > > positioning, >> > > > and querying the camera for supported resolutions? Application >> > > > developers are currently forced to implement phone-specific (read: >> > > > G1- >> > > > specific) solutions, while it ought to be hardware independent at >> > > > application level through appropriate abstraction methods (hardware >> > > > dependencies should be pushed down into camera device drivers, etc). >> > >> > > > Thanks >> > >> > > > On Dec 31, 3:16 am, Dave Sparks <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > > > Support for video capture is a work-in-progress on the Cupcake >> > > > > branch, >> > > > > as are the other features on the list. Cupcake is a stabilization >> > > > > branch that will eventually lead to an Android platform release. >> > > > > After >> > > > > that, we expect that some hardware manufacturers will begin >> > > > > deploying >> > > > > devices based on Cupcake. The timing of when devices appear on the >> > > > > market is in the hands of the vendors and not under the control of >> > > > > the >> > > > > Android Open Source Project. >> > >> > > > > Please don't ask when Cupcake will appear on your G1 because it's >> > > > > not >> > > > > within our control. >> > >> > > > > On Dec 30, 9:24 am, Limi <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > > > > Is video capture available in Android platform? if not when is >> > > > > > it >> > > > > > going to be supported? Android 1.x ? >> > > > > > Also when are the new features shown on the roadmap are going to >> > > > > > be >> > > > > > supported? >> > >> > > > > > Thanks, >> > > > > > Limi >> > > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
