[android-developers] Re: Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-19 Thread kolel2
Hi Ash, I work for a company called PerfectoMobile (used to be Nexperience). See www.perfectomobile.com. We enable access to real mobile devices via the web. You can install your app on the device and test it as if you were holding the device in your hands. We just launched a campaign especially

Re: [android-developers] Re: Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-11 Thread dan raaka
If you are not using sensors or openGL, you can pretty much get away with emulator. -Dan On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:41 PM, android-coder wrote: > Unless you have 1000 students at a time to cater for, I see no need to > buy 20 phones. Just buy one of each of the 5 most popular phones at > the t

[android-developers] Re: Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-11 Thread android-coder
Unless you have 1000 students at a time to cater for, I see no need to buy 20 phones. Just buy one of each of the 5 most popular phones at the time, and save the budget for future releases. Developing on the emulator is perfectly fine and is easier than transferring to the device each time. You

[android-developers] Re: Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-10 Thread PJ
Pankaj, I'm in the same boat as you are: I'm an independent developer that doesn't have funding to buy 20 phones. The emulator comes with a lot of options, so that could be used to some extent to simulate different devices. You can simulate slower devices with -cpu-delay, set the resolution with

[android-developers] Re: Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-10 Thread Pankaj Godbole
I agree that quality is priceless. I know this first-hand from spending several years in testing and quality assurance. It might be possible for an institution to purchase 20 different phone models to test on. But how is an independent individual developer like me supposed to purchase so many phon

[android-developers] Re: Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-10 Thread PJ
I can't agree more with Eric. Why get 20 phones that are all identical? Get some variety so that you write apps that work as expected for multiple devices. You can't put a price tag on quality. It's not worth saving $50 per phone if you end up writing an app that breaks on a particular device an

[android-developers] Re: Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-10 Thread Eric Wong (hdmp4.com)
I would say get at least one unit for each Android models out there? Since every unit seems to have slight variation of Android implementation and apk tested on one may not work on the other. Hope this spreadsheet would help http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rdm8c2ZfSDKd5l-dVy4SrnA&output=htm

Re: [android-developers] Re: Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-10 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
The ADP1 is a great phone, but essentially the same thing as a T-Mobile G1. We've done most of our development on these phones, and they're powerful, robust and reliable. But, as I said, it's unlikely they'll get Android 2.0, and they are HVGA. @Nightwolf: my understanding is that the Galaxy eith

[android-developers] Re: Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-10 Thread ander...@phdgaming.com
Note: According to a Google Employee, using the Motorola Droid without service might cause problems. See individual message at: http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/msg/fb2066c22b44f5c9 or the thread at: http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/1b2c72555e0733b1

[android-developers] Re: Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-10 Thread CyberQat
If you are a university I would contact Motorola and HTC directly. In general these sorts of large corporations have University liaison programs in place. In fact you might get it cheaper "for academic purposes" then you could on the street or through normal channels. On Nov 10, 4:32 pm, Ash wr

[android-developers] Re: Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-10 Thread Ash
Thank you so much Scott, Patrick, Pankaj and others... This thread is of great help to me and to others like me. Please keep this thread going adding your viewpoints and comments. And also could you please help me find where can we order the Motorola Droid and some HTC phones. As we are ordering

[android-developers] Re: Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-10 Thread Pankaj Godbole
This is a good analysis of which phones to consider for development. I also am ready to purchase a phone for testing of real-world apps (i.e. not for educational purposes). I have been advised by a couple of people to consider purchasing the ADP1 from Google. What are your views on using the ADP1

[android-developers] Re: Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-09 Thread Patrick
There is one more thing to take in to account, are they just learning to develop or will they actually produce software that others can use? As it is now most Users have a HTC Magic or Hero which means for that something the runs on a new phone might not do as well for the general public also while

[android-developers] Re: Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-09 Thread Nightwolf
What's wrong with Samsung Galaxy in terms of 3D? On 10 ноя, 08:17, "SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com" wrote: > Personally, I find all Android phones to be excellent for development. > > However, here are some things I would consider before deciding. > > Let's consider these devices: > HTC G1 >