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Al. -- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jean-Baptiste Queru Sent: 11 August 2009 15:05 To: [email protected] Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Reasons for working in the platform instead of SDK keeping things terse: platform = creating phones (2nd party) SDK = creating apps that run on phones (3rd party) JBQ On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM, cafffiene<[email protected]> wrote: > > What is the reason that some people work at the platform layer, > instead of just the SDK? > > I have done some work in both, and not surprisingly, development is > faster and easier in the SDK (for me), due to books, number of > developers, build times, etc. Of course, it depends on what you're > doing. > > The advantage I can see to working at the platform layer, is to be > able to modify some core apps, such as Email, Contacts, etc, without > having to re-write those apps (to my knowledge, you can't just extend > those apps, and work in the SDK). However, once you've worked at the > platform layer, you have to maintain your branch for future releases, > which sounds like a lot of work. > > Perhaps some good work at the platform layer could get accepted and > included in the next release, which would be very cool. > > Are there other reasons for working at the platform layer, instead of > the SDK? > > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Software Engineer, Android Open-Source Project, Google. Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further warning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
