Out of curiosity: how many developers of adc2 apps tested their apps
under the 1.6 emulator and actually found any issue?

If the app is using public APIs and/or the 1.5 NDK, it should work
fine under 1.6. If not, make sure to file bugs at http://b.android.com
so that issues can be addressed.

R/

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Spencer Riddering <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> My point wasn't to sound an alarm. It was intended to be thought
> provoking.
>
> I want to remind Google that IMHO the preferred judging platform is
> 1.5 so anything they can do to tip the scales towards using 1.5 is the
> right choice. For example, will the industry professional judges in
> round 2 be asked to use devices running 1.5 if possible?
>
> My point was also a bit reflective. How did we get here? How can this
> situation be avoided in the future?
>
>
> On Oct 3, 12:05 am, Spencer Riddering <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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 
>> herehttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa...
>> and  Google has acknowledged the problem 
>> herehttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa...
>>
>> 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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