> I like your idea, but unless you take on board what Mark says, that is > what it will remain: an idea. Good ideas come and go all the time, but > as long as everyone has their own ideas for everything, it is only the > ideas belonging to the ones who get off their asses and do something > that will ever become a reality. Brainstorm sites can go some way to > countering this, but you'll probably find that the majority of > brainstorm ideas that actually get developed are backed in some > significant way by the person who posted them.
i see what you are saying and i agree with you. if i had the time or the ability to create applications, i would do it. but for me to go out of my way to learn how to make this app, and then probably do not as good of a job as any experienced dev, would be a waste of a good idea in my eyes. therefore i tell you guys. programming is (or at least should be) a hobby of most devs. so something like this should be a fairly basic side project. my point is that i dont give enough of a damn for this application to become reality. but i do think that if any of you guys really thought this over, you would at least look into creating this (or any other good "idea" posted up by non-devs like myself). to just brush it under the rug and say "get off your ass and do it yourself" doesnt earn you any money/glory, and doesnt go toward the betterment of android. i can plant a seed, i just dont have the necessary resources to nourish it. but if anybody does, it will grow and everyone will enjoy it's fruit. > Seeing that you asked for feedback, I think the AppManager-style > solution is workable, but there are some serious caveats. Transferring > an apk between filesystems before launching an application is going to > have a detriment effect on the load time, and we're not just talking a > couple of seconds. Even if it was a couple of seconds, it will still > make the platform feel sluggish. Limiting it to the least used apps > helps a bit, but still problematic. For example I only play games or > open the weather app very occasionally, but when I do start one I > don't intend to wait 8 seconds for file transfers to complete before I > even see a splash screen. once again, very good point. but thats why i say that it's a work- around concept. i believe/hope that google will eventually bring out a patch that would make it possible to run applications off the sd card. but in the meantime we've been waiting around since october to no avail. so sure, the concept will create a lag feel for the platform, but only when you open "bubble", "throttle copter" or "white board". but im sure that a lot of g1 users would be willing to offer up 8 seconds for these rarely used applications, for 8GB of virtual phone memory. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
