Sorry for the late reply On Feb 17, 10:35 pm, snctln <[email protected]> wrote: > snip > Besides "doing Android longer than most" what projects are you working > on? Do you have anything up on the Android Market?
I can't say what I'm working on. I have worked on 3 applications that are on the Android Market now. > I personally found this discussion group interesting an engaging about > a year ago, while all of us Android developers were using it as a > place to come together and complain about paid apps mostly. Me 2, I am very happy that there is an official Android water cooler, that it is easy to find, and that people can be led to it from a google search. > I wish i had the ability to respond to comments for my apps on the > market. You do. You can respond as a regular user and put up your own comment. You can respond by changing your market listing. You can respond within your application, where you have near total control. > I did not have > an Android device back then so I had to go to a T-Mobile store in > order to see the comments for my first app, I will never forget the > first comment I read for it "F*** this S***". I was so confused, but > can now laugh about it. Yeah if was going to to submit an application for a phone I could not lay my hands on... I wouldn't attach my name to it. > That brings up another point, why can't developers view the comments > for their apps through the developers console? I don't know but I can guess. It might just be to encourage developers to get their hands on real hardware. I recommend you focus on the devices with existing market share, or those you predict will have higher market share in the future. > Not every developer has an Android phone. There are a lot of services available to help developers without phones. DeviceAnywhere for example. You can also partner with other developers who do have phones, etc. I do not trust emulators as far as I can throw them. Android has some of the best emulators I've seen but I do not make much use of them myself. Usually what the emulator does for me is remind me that I forgot to change my device settings to development mode, or I forgot to install the USB drivers, or the data cable got unplugged. Some of the development tools seem to work better with the emulator then with my Droid, but I consider that to be a bug in those tools. > So yeah, there are some topics that might get people interacting with > each other. Not so sure if forming a community around the negative is > the best idea, but that is what I remember from a year ago around > here. > > ---snctlnwww.snctln.com I was in mobile a pretty long time before the first Android public SDK was released. I appreciate the perspective that gave me. Things were much, much worse then. Most of those older "markets" or "app stores" or "carrier decks" or whatever did not have the features Android lacked either. My 2 cents, Matt Kanninen -- 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.
