Hi Dianne Hackborn,

Is IME & IMF going to support word prediction based on some language
dictionary?  I find that features including dictionary of suggestions
and a suggestion algorithm are included in the IME roadmap for 2009 Q1
release, and in the SoftKeyboard.java there is an commented line //
startPrediction().

Thanks.

On Dec 20, 7:11 am, "Dianne Hackborn" <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is something after 1.0, but there is no release number assigned to it
> yet.  That is why we use names instead of, when starting work, trying to
> predict the future and assign a release number.  That rarely works out. :)
> However, it certainly will not be a 1.0_rXXX version, since cupcake is
> changes to the platform which will result in something that is not 1.0.
>
> If an app tries to use one of the new APIs on a phone that is running an
> older version, best case it won't do anything, worst case the app will not
> work at all.  It depends on what you are doing.  For example, using new XML
> attributes will just be ignored on previous versions.  Directly using Java
> APIs will cause your app to break on previous versions because they don't
> exist there.  You can use reflection to look to see if the API exists and
> call it indirectly if running on a version that has it.
>
> Right now cupcake is mostly in a state for platform engineers to work with
> it.  As we get closer to finishing on it, will we be putting together new
> SDKs that people can use to write apps against the new APIs.  I think you
> might be able to build your own private SDK using the cupcake branch, but we
> are not yet at the point where the APIs are stabilized so using them will be
> a moving target (much like all of the pre-cupcake APIs were until we got to
> 1.0).
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Ed Burnette <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Pardon me if this has been answered before, but is the "cupcake" work
> > ultimately going into Android SDK version 2.0 or 1.1 or
> > 1.0_r<something>, and what happens when you run an app that uses a new
> > API like Window.setSoftInputMode() on a phone with the current Android
> > 1.0?
>
> > I'm wondering about the compatibility story in general so any light
> > you can shed on that would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> [email protected]
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support.  All such questions should be posted on public
> forums, where I and others can see and answer them.
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