Re: [android-developers] Re: Request to Google's Android SDK team

2011-07-25 Thread Mark Ayers
For the development cost, you could just wait till September and get the new Archos tablethttp://www.archos.com/products/gen9/index.html?country=uslang=en that starts at $270. It looks like it should be the fastest available tablet. On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Mark Murphy

[android-developers] Re: Request to Google's Android SDK team

2011-07-24 Thread Yahel
If my users were inconvenienced, I would try to give them a temporary solution to hold them over until I have a good solution.  But that's just me.  It's a difference in engineering philosophy. Your innocence is touching :D Google doesn't have users, it has beta-testers. I know it's going to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Request to Google's Android SDK team

2011-07-23 Thread Jimen Ching
All your suggestions are valid and I've already used some of them. E.g. I've finished with the 2.2 testing. I want to now test with as many other devices as possible (without having to mortgage my home). The issue isn't whether there are work-arounds, we're all engineers, our jobs are to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Request to Google's Android SDK team

2011-07-23 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Jimen Ching jimen.ch...@gmail.com wrote: If you do not agree a VirtualBox solution is a more convenient and efficient solution, then I don't think there's anything I can say to convince you otherwise. If it would work, it might be. However, I doubt that it will

[android-developers] Re: Request to Google's Android SDK team

2011-07-22 Thread lbendlin
Sooner or later you will have to test against a real device anyhow. it might be a financial burden but it is inevitable. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

[android-developers] Re: Request to Google's Android SDK team

2011-07-22 Thread Jimen Ching
I don't deny that real hardware is needed sooner or later. But I hope Google isn't restricting their developer ecosystem to multi-million dollar software houses only. I am developing applications for multiple Android API levels, multiple screen resolutions and screen sizes. Is Google saying

Re: [android-developers] Re: Request to Google's Android SDK team

2011-07-22 Thread Mark Murphy
The 2.2 and 2.3 emulators work fine on decent hardware (e.g., dual-core 2GHz+, ample RAM). It is only the Honeycomb series of emulators that is an issue. Given the low penetration of Honeycomb devices to date, it is perfectly reasonable for you to say oh, never mind for now and focus on Android