my biggest gripe about the media player is that it can't remember where you leave off in a song when it is interrupted by a call or for various other reasons (or if you just want to pause and come back later) I would be happy to buy a 3rd party app that does this, but it seems that there aren't any out there. It doesn't even seem like its possible. I don't care if its the ugliest looking app in the world, thats all I want Mark. Please :*(
And before you say it, I would be happy to make the changes to the Android source myself, if I had the slightest idea how to, and if I weren't running windows. Buuuut, I am running windows, and I can barely get my simple widget to work :P On May 19, 11:55 pm, mike quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Well said Mark > > On May 20, 2009 5:32 AM, "Mark Murphy" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > How are these descisions being made? > > To foreshadow some of your other "points", 80% of the core Android team's > time is directed by management; 20% is for "Innovation Time Off". Note > that the "Innovation Time Off" (colloquially referred to as "20% time"), > by all reports, is not tied to product line, insofar as the core Android > team could spend that time developing things outside of Android, and > non-Android team members could create Android applications. > > > Case in point. Let's take the music player in Android. Now I'll be as > > > diplomatic as possible...... > I'd give it a few notches above "crap", but it is certainly low on features. > > Moreover, you are welcome to: > > -- Purchase or download a replacement media player on the Android Market > or third-party markets > > -- Purchase Android devices where the device manufacturer has elected to > augment or replace the existing media player with one of their own design > (e.g., I would expect the Archos media player device due out shortly will > not use Android's default media player app) > > -- Contribute money to a team working to add capabilities to the media > player, with those changes going through the approvals process to get > included in future Android builds > > None of those even require engineering skills. > > > The staggering part is I just downloaded Sky Map and am stunned at the > > > complex tech we can all ... > You assume that Kevin Serafini and the others who wrote Sky Map are on the > core Android team. Just because he and others presumably wrote Sky Map > using 20% time does not mean they are on the core Android team. It could > be, as Mr. Serafini wrote, that they are simply fans of Android and > astronomy buffs. > > http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/05/sky-map-for-android-mobile-p... > > > Take everybody: and I mean everybody on all of the ecentric 20% > projects > > for just four weeks an... > 1. As I have mentioned a few times, those writing Android applications on > 20% time are not necessarily members of the core Android team. > > 2. The 20% time plan is way bigger than Android. A significant number of > Google product launches were initiated with 20% time projects. > > http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/msande472/060517-msande47... > > The core of the 20% time seems to be the self-directed nature of those > projects, and I suspect Google would be reticent to mess with that system > just to add a graphic equalizer to an Android media player. > > 3. The list of things you will demand will never end. For example, maybe > in the small handful of person-weeks of time your proposal would "free > up", they do not complete the graphic equalizer. You would probably > consider that to be a failure and demand even more time. > > > I'm certain I could do a better job...and will happily prove it. Try > me > > :) > If you have engineering talent, visit: > > http://source.android.com > > There are those who follow these lists who think I'm a broken record on > this point, and they're probably correct. But the solution to getting more > capabilities in Android is not likely to come in the form of beating up > the core Android team, or even beating up Android management. Since > Android is an open source project, we need to figure out how to get more > people contributing on the open source level. The military likes to toss > around terms like "force multipliers" for this sort of thing -- open > source contributions are force multipliers towards the objective of having > Android "be all it can be". > > I long for the day when the core Android team needs to add headcount > simply because they are reviewing and processing too many contributions. > > -- > 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 s... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
