Good points Mark. 1) Quebec: According to a gov official whose comments were in the press, Google's position was no justified and showed a misunderstanding of the law governing competition with prizes. Details of Google's position were not provided by the company, thus 'obscure'. Comments by Italians on the net also showed that there was a lack of details from Google concerning Italy.
2) Tutorials: maybe I should have worded it a little differently. You are correct that Google calls these 'tutorials' and thanks for pointing that out, but they're not tutorials for me. They're badly documented code examples. From 2008, we do have lots of code examples from Google (which is good), but usually these are badly commented (which makes them very difficult to understand). It takes a lot of experimentation to figure out some way, not even the best way, to do something, particularly with the UI. I do admire some of the apps that are out there already. These developers must have been at it day and night. 3) Market: yes I'll probably get some pushback but this is my general experience with it; I published 4 apps so far, and one of these I took down after I learned what I wanted to learn with that app (e.g., I was impressed that the Market let me take down an app so easily). The market does more than I expected and it does what Google announced. My few negative points about the Market are also there, security and obnoxious comments and ratings. I'm sure that some users have had difficulties with the Market but if you ignore the people trying to start their own markets, and the users that mis-read the terms and conditions, then there aren't many significant issues that I could find on the help forums, and Google personnel were very helpful in general. I also noticed that your helpful comments in the groups Mark are making a significant contribution to positive design of Android open, communal, helping-each-other, lets-build-these-technologies-together, approach. thanks for your comments here also, serge On Mar 7, 1:24 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > sm1 wrote: > > +/- Android Developer Challenge #1 came and went; many developers were > > barred for obscure reasons (e.g., residents of Italy and Quebec). > > In the case of Quebec, IIRC, they have some odd rules regarding contests > that cause a lot of contests to exclude Quebecois to avoid those rules. > I do not believe this was something peculiar to Android. > > > +/- Documentation is improving; although still incomplete and > > incorrect in places; official tutorials missing. > > There are three official tutorials posted: Hello World, Hello Views, and > Notepad. Obviously, more depth would be nice, but what do you feel is > missing about those three? > > http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/hello-world.htmlhttp://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/views/index.htmlhttp://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/notepad/index.html > > > + The Market is easy to use by developers and consumers, and generally > > very robust. > > Oh, I suspect you'll get some pushback on this point... > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Available! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
