Hi Xavier, Thanks for getting involved in this thread.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the work you guys are doing, I can only imagine what a strain preparing a new Android release must be. As a developer, I think it's quite fair to ask for an updated sdk before an official release to users. It's a win-win for everyone really, the devs are happy they have time to update their apps, users are happy their tablet with a spanking new upgrade hasn't resulted in broken apps and Google gets good karma from everyone :) If Ice Cream Sandwich is really the huge release I'm reading about on various android news sites, I hope the team will push out an updated (& working) sdk as early as possible to us time to prepare for it. I'm sure I don't only speak for myself when I say it'd would be immensely frustrating to watch users receive such a major update while devs are left behind unable to update their apps to take advantage of features/ changes in it. On Jul 21, 6:32 pm, Xavier Ducrohet <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi String, > > Thanks for this release summary. Yes, we didn't do a good job for 3.2 > but unlike what someone else said in the thread this hasn't always > been the case. > > It's not like we don't care, on the contrary. But it's just that > things get in the way of releases sometimes. We'd love to give you > more advanced versions. > > By the way, for honeycomb you forgot that we released a preview SDK on > January 26th. Sure it wasn't final, but it gave a really good preview > of what was coming up in 3.0. I think the emulator situation just > rendered this kind of moot though (in term of testing your existing > apps on the new version). > > Xav > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:50 AM, String <[email protected]> wrote: > > This was never an issue with 1.x. The SDKs were all released before OTAs > > started rolling out to what few phones were in the wild. > > It was an issue with Eclair. The 2.0 SDK was released on 27 October 2009, > > and the original Droid hit the streets less than 2 weeks later, on 6 > > November. Given the big leap that Eclair represented, that just wasn't > > enough lead time, especially given Verizon's big marketing push for the > > Droid. > > Things got worse with 2.1, which went on sale with the Nexus One > > on 5 January 2010; the SDK wasn't released until 11 Jan. We were pretty > > steamed up about that one, as I recall. > > Froyo was a step forward again; the SDK was released right after I/O 2010, > > on 20 May. I can't find an exact date for when phones in the wild started > > getting it, but IIRC it was first OTA'ed to the Nexus One sometime in June, > > and no actual handsets were released with Froyo for a couple more months > > after that. > > Gingerbread wasn't too bad either, with the SDK coming out on 6 December > > 2010, and the first handset (Nexus S) hitting the streets ten days later. > > While this may look similar to the Eclair situation, it actually wasn't as > > bad for devs; it wasn't as big of a leap in the platform, and the Nexus S > > had much lower early sales than the original Droid, especially in the > > context of the wider ecosystem. > > IMHO, the initial Honeycomb release was the worst. The SDK was released > > on 22 February 2011, and the Xoom came out just 2 days later. But it's > > actually worse than it looks from the pure dates; because 3.0 was such a > > jump, and also because the emulator was (is) so unusable. It was months > > before many devs could realistically even try their apps on it, much less > > develop for it. > > So in context, the 3.2 update is pretty much par for the course. Google > > could unquestionably do a much better job with this, but the developer > > community has been saying that for a long time now, and there's little (if > > any) sign of improvement. It's clearly just not a priority for the decision > > makers in Mountain View. > > > String > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Android Discuss" group. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > >https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-discuss/-/XY3Sw5rg-CwJ. > > 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. > > -- > Xavier Ducrohet > Android SDK Tech Lead > Google Inc.http://developer.android.com|http://tools.android.com > > Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! -- 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.
