I will agree that we've not been very good at advertising this. However, since April of this year the developer tools for Android are developed entirely in the open, and we have accepted several contributions from external people. If you want to contribute, register to the android-contrib google groups, talk to us about what you want to contribute, and then submit a patch.
In this quarter we have plans to document the process on source.android.com, create a mailing list specifically for the dev tools, and (attempt to) create a true community around tools development as we know there are people out there making 3rd party tools for android (maven plug-ins, intellij, etc...) who would probably want better knowledge of what we do and have input on features and directions. The git projects for the tools is http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/sdk.git;a=summary (the emulator is in http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/external/qemu.git;a=summary) Xav On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/09/2010 07:59 AM, Manfred Moser wrote: >> >> Thats great. But also a shame that the community had to hack up their own >> tools for a while just because there was no roadmap or anything available >> to tell or a good way to contribute an enhancement like that. >> >> manfred > > Yes. While most of the few parts of Android that are not "open" are > understandable (marketing, agreements with manufacturers, etc...), the point > cited by Manfred is really not understandable. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Xavier Ducrohet Android SDK Tech Lead Google Inc. Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
