I don't actually own an android device (unless you count my [unrooted]
Kindle) but appreciate the potential of the market enough to have made a
stab at learning a little Android development.

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Michael Dykman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Devon,
>
> Yes, it has been emulator-only to this point although the android
> development kit supplies all shapes and sizes of emulators.  I have
> had a 'standard' smart-phone profile in mind.  I did have an
> opportunity to run it on an Acer tablet; the keyboard did stretch
> along the bottom but not so distorted that it wasn't useful, even in
> landscape.
>
> As the core app only displays full-screen consoles and editors, the
> only device-specific item would be the layout of the keyboard.  I
> don't think it will be too difficult to come up with reasonable
> defaults once I have the basic functionality implemented.
>
> I should note that the use of keyboards(s) to be supplied with the
> console app is optional.  If your tablet is already equipped with a
> keyboard to your liking, you are free to use that.  In fact, the use
> of custom keyboards under android is a bit convoluted as they have to
> be explicitly enabled in settings before they can be used with any app
> at all, even the ones they are bundled with.
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi Michael -
> >
> > are you currently developing in the emulator only?  I'm wondering how far
> > this gets you, if the device-specific customization adds a lot of work.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Devon
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