I'm not seeing it. But I was tempted to chime in on the ProGuard thread
but it's been dead for a week. There were issues arising there that
exposed a rather naive attitude that Google has towards Android
developers. Android has a lot of developers who I like to call "bedroom
developers". IOW, people who produce software part time or out of their
own home. This is nothing new. The Palm developer community was also
strongly this. This includes many developers who have a great amount of
experience and just may prefer to work at home for themselves rather
than some company.
In that thread what I saw was the presumption that developers should be
either with a company that has a specialized systems programmer who
could deal with the implementation of ProGuard which currently is not
integrated into Eclipse or a single developer wear many hats including
systems engineer. Where I worked in the 1990s we hired apps programmers
and systems engineers who were responsible for their respective roles.
I would say the majority of the Android developers are apps programmers
not systems engineers. Palm seemed to realize this. And BTW, I've done
programming on proprietary systems where the company believed that
development should be difficult. That's not a good idea as developers
waste more time on implementation issues when they could be spending it
on creating a better app.
I feel that the issue you are spotlighting here and what I mention above
is due to the relative inexperience of a lot of Google's staff. And it
was plain as day when I started working with the SDK and the terse
documentation. Sometimes it's best to use experience from elsewhere
rather than try to reinvent the wheel.
TreKing wrote:
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Al <[email protected]> wrote:
Anyone else seeing this?
Just checked and yup, everything is new again. Another day dealing with the
Android Market ... *sigh*
Here we go again:
http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/request.py?contact_type=publisher
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TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago
transit tracking app for Android-powered devices
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