It's only a week into the ADC2 judging and already phones are being
updated to Android 1.6 Cupcake. With at least one more week to go in
the first round and (I'm guessing) two more weeks of judging in the
second round this means that around 75% of the ADC2 judging will occur
on Android 1.6. The 1.6 SDK was not made available to developers until
after the ADC2 deadline so (except for a few exceptions) all of the
ADC2 applications were not tested on this judging platform.

Already an undocumented change in 1.6, which can break applications
that worked on 1.5, has been discovered here
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/61aca5f1f5bb0884/8cdd93627f37d636?lnk=gst
and  Google has acknowledged the problem here
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/9abb325786b5829c/aebe4677b6620a25?lnk=gst&q=%22There+was+a+bug+in+the+VM+in+1.5+that+would+allow+abstract+classes+to+be+instantiated+through+reflection.%22#aebe4677b6620a25

Why is Google allowing an estimated 75% of the ADC2 to be judged on a
platform version that almost no one has had a chance to test on?

Spencer Riddering

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