Those are very good questions. I will relay them inside Google and try to get some answers.
JBQ On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, I'm an Android-opensource user and I'm using it with my > Openmoko Freerunner. > It's a nice project and the basic phone is nice, but compiling it from > source lacks of some nice applications by google. First of all: > - Vending / Market [the most important, since it can give the access > to an .apk world] > - Gmail > - Youtube > - Maps > - IM providers (at least Google Talk and MSN). > > Ok, google is keeping its code closed; it's not my philosophy but I > can accept it. > But, why not releasing their .apk for all the android users? > > Actually these apps are available for G1 users providing to them > an .apk + an .odex file; since the .odex files are built for that > system no one cold use these files, but G1 users (who uses a pre- > compiled rootfs). > I'd just need an apk file with an "indipendent" .dex inside; why can't > you do that for all the other android open-source users? > > Best regards, > Marco Trevisan > > PS: Another nice closed library is Google Gears... Unfortunately > there's only freely available lib for armv5 CPUs. Could you, please, > publish binary blobs for armv4, x86, ppc, [...] users? > I figure that you'd spend just few seconds to compile it for more > archs. > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
