BTW...official terms and conditions state:
"a. SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES: To qualify for a Prize, an "Entry" to the
Challenge consists of an original application that is written using a
version of the Android Software Development Kit ("SDK") (available at
http://developer.android.com) that validly executes on Android version
1.5. The SDK contains instructions, documentation, and all necessary
tools to enable a Participant to build an Android application."
Why tell developers the contest is for apps built on 1.5 when you
probably knew all along that you were going to release the new
platform in the middle of the contest, thus rendering many of these
apps unusable? We spent 3 months making a great app and I've been
hosting a server just for this contest and now testers can't even
login to test the application if they have the 1.6 update.
Shelby
On Oct 4, 11:31 pm, bellapariah <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just got the 1.6 download and found out my ADC2 app is not working
> anymore. Works fine on 1.5 but people with 1.6 can't log in. Guess
> that explains the sudden drop in new accounts being created (We got
> around 70 testers before numbers plummeted to 5 to 6 over the
> weekend). :( If Google planned to release 1.6 in the middle of a
> contest, they should have informed developers and given them the tools
> to test their app on this platform. We spent months on creating a high
> quality app for this contest and now people can't even judge it! There
> are probably hundreds of other developers that spent sleepless nights
> working their butt off to finish before the deadline just to have
> their chances decimated by google. All I can say is that I'm extremely
> disappointed in the way Google has handled this entire contest and I
> think it is extremely unfair and inconsiderate the way they are
> treating developers that they are supposed to be attracting to the
> Android platform.
>
> Shelby
>
> On Oct 2, 9:05 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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