[android-developers] Re: List of bugs on the issue which should be marked as resolved

2010-08-05 Thread Dan Morrill
Thanks very much Gaz! We'll take a look at these ASAP. - Dan On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Gaz Davidson garethdavid...@gmail.comwrote: There's tons of bugs on the tracker which have already been fixed in 2.2 or earlier, but have not been marked as resolved in the 2.2 release. As FroYo

[android-developers] Re: Judging application for the ADC 2

2009-08-31 Thread Dan Morrill
The .apk files submitted will be treated as normal applications when installed on the device, so if the user has both versions installed, he/she will see two icons. - Dan On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Vytautas Vaitukaitis vaitukaitis.vytau...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, everyone, Just a

[android-developers] Re: ADC 2 Submission Site -- Now live

2009-08-27 Thread Dan Morrill
We are not planning to extend the submission deadline. - Dan On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:22 PM, patrick android.com...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i'm asking wher can we ask google to extend the deadline? thks On 25 août, 17:05, Dan Sherman impact...@gmail.com wrote: There's no reason that they

[android-developers] Re: ADC2 Challenge - Is this allowed?

2009-08-27 Thread Dan Morrill
Yes, this is correct. We will review all apps that make it on to the second round to confirm eligibility. - Dan On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Dan Sherman impact...@gmail.com wrote: a) I'd imagine, they'll go through ADC getting rated, but if they should win, I'd imagine Google would check

[android-developers] Re: ADC2 Challenge - Is this allowed?

2009-08-27 Thread Dan Morrill
Timothy is quite correct. In fact, the original rules said that you couldn't have published your app publicly anywhere at all, but we loosened that rule in response to feedback since it unintentionally excluded open source projects. We also were originally going to require apps to wait until the

[android-developers] Re: ADC 2 Submission Site -- Now live

2009-08-27 Thread Dan Morrill
You are not required to submit a trial version. However, many developers prefer to do so, so the rules are simply making it clear that this is permitted. - Dan On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:33 AM, androidDeveloper stepmas...@googlemail.com wrote: So...will ADC2 apps be used by people outside

[android-developers] Re: ADC 2 Submission Site -- Now live

2009-08-25 Thread Dan Morrill
25, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Ehab Bassilli ehab.bassi...@googlemail.com wrote: Dan, Sorry to be a pain but what about upgraded versions of apps sumitted after aug 1st? I.e. the new features and ui were available after aug 1st? Thanks On Aug 25, 2009 4:21 AM, Dan Morrill morri...@google.com wrote

[android-developers] Re: What Happened to Android Discuss Group?

2009-08-25 Thread Dan Morrill
We don't know what happened to it, but whatever it was was unintentional. :) We're looking into it now. Sorry for the inconvenience. -Dan On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.com wrote: No idea. I'm missing it, too. On Aug 25, 12:48 pm, Doug

[android-developers] Re: ADC 2 Submission Site -- Now live

2009-08-25 Thread Dan Morrill
While we do recommend that you design your apps and assets to be resolution-independent, it's okay to focus on HVGA devices for the ADC2. - Dan On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Fallen Leaf fallenleafga...@gmail.comwrote: Just a question. I have read that judges can use devices that aren't

[android-developers] Re: ADC 2 Submission Site -- Now live

2009-08-24 Thread Dan Morrill
This site is using the same infrastructure as the Android Market and shares a unified namespace, primarily to avoid squatting issues. That is, we want to make sure that if a developer submits an app via ADC2 that an evil third party could not come along and put an app with the same package up on

[android-developers] Re: ADC 2 Submission Site -- Now live

2009-08-24 Thread Dan Morrill
should use com.myapp.adc2 or similar in order to avoid a future conflict? Peli On Aug 24, 7:48 pm, Dan Morrill morri...@google.com wrote: This site is using the same infrastructure as the Android Market and shares a unified namespace, primarily to avoid squatting issues. That is, we

[android-developers] Re: ADC 2 Submission Site -- Now live

2009-08-24 Thread Dan Morrill
Ah yes, I misunderstood the question. I guess I had the other topic on my mind. ;) - Dan On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: This site is using the same infrastructure as the Android Market and shares a unified namespace, primarily to avoid

[android-developers] Re: ADC 2 Submission Site -- Now live

2009-08-24 Thread Dan Morrill
Users will be randomly assigned apps to judge, without regard for categories. - Dan On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Peli peli0...@googlemail.com wrote: I have a question regarding the judging application that is provided by Google: Will users (judges) have the possibility to choose which

[android-developers] Re: ADC 2 Submission Site -- Now live

2009-08-24 Thread Dan Morrill
This is correct: upgraded versions of apps submitted to Market before 1 August are ineligible; this includes UI upgrades. - Dan On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM, mgpc mcumm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ehab, The rules say: An Entry (or substantially similar application by the same Participant)

[android-developers] SDK 1.5_r3 is available

2009-07-17 Thread Dan Morrill
Hi, all! I wanted to let you know that a new SDK has been released: 1.5_r3 is now available. This is a minor release, and includes a Japanese IME and fixes for a few bugs, including a permissions issue. You can read more about the permissions issue here:

[android-developers] Oops, sorry everyone!

2009-05-11 Thread Dan Morrill
It looks like while doing this morning's anti-spam moderation, I accidentally clicked Allow instead of Mark as Spam in the UI. This is why all the spam you guys probably just saw got through. I apologize for this inconvenience. - Dan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[android-developers] Re: Problems with Cupcake OTA update for ADP1

2009-05-11 Thread Dan Morrill
As Disconnect noted, the ADP1 builds do not update OTA. Some third-party builds mis-report themselves (mistakenly, I doubt this is intentional) as builds that can update OTA, so if you had previously installed a third-party build, that's likely why. Unfortunately this configuration is

[android-developers] Re: Can't upload my app in the market ! Market requires the minSdkVersion to be set in AndroidManifest.xml.

2009-04-24 Thread Dan Morrill
Hello! You probably need to use android:minSdkVersion rather than minSdkVersion. - Dan On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:16 PM, 6real xirgon...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, since today I have the following clear message : Market requires the minSdkVersion to be set in AndroidManifest.xml. but my

[android-developers] Re: Updated Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement?

2009-04-24 Thread Dan Morrill
Hello! Actually, the DDA didn't change. What happened is that due to a bug a while back, a few developers were able to create accounts without agreeing to the correct DDA. So when those developers log in, they are now being prompted to agree. The DDA you are seeing should not introduce any new

[android-developers] Re: *** Why 1 G1 can see Paid Apps in the Android Market and Another Not? ***

2009-03-31 Thread Dan Morrill
This is not true. Devices that are identified as root-enabled, whether an ADP1 or a rooted retail G1, cannot access copy-protected apps. They can still access both paid and free apps that are not copy-protected, however. - Dan On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Michael MacDonald

[android-developers] Re: Dev Phone can not see paid apps using the 1.1 holiday release

2009-03-31 Thread Dan Morrill
If you have the holiday devphone build, it's either an actual Google-employee holiday phone, or you've flashed a third-party system image on some other device. The latter case is an unsupported configuration, and it would not surprise me at all if the Market client in that build simply pre-dates

[android-developers] Re: Bug in UK i18n?

2009-03-24 Thread Dan Morrill
Oops. Yes, the document is wrong. Sorry about that. We'll get it fixed. - Dan On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Michael Bollmann michael.bollm...@googlemail.com wrote: yep that was the problem thank you very much this document talks about Locale Code en-UK:

[android-developers] Re: Android Video Capturing

2009-03-21 Thread Dan Morrill
That page refers to the underlying system, which is indeed capable of encoding to H.263. However, no API for video recording exists in Android 1.0 or 1.1. A future version of Android (likely the next one) will support video recording, including an API. - Dan On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:51 PM,

[android-developers] Re: Does android webkit support html5?

2009-03-20 Thread Dan Morrill
We do aim to include features from HTML5 over time, but currently the Android Browser app does not include any HTML5 capabilities. It does include Gears, which might be useful to some developers but unfortunately has no counterpart for the audio tag. - Dan On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:47 AM, j

[android-developers] Re: Android Developer Challenge II Cancelled?

2009-03-19 Thread Dan Morrill
Oops. Looks like that page was collateral damage when we did the move to developer.android.com. We're looking into it; thanks for pointing it out. At any rate the content that would be there refers only to the first Developer Challenge. Regarding the second Developer Challenge, it definitely

[android-developers] Re: Android Developer Challenge II Cancelled?

2009-03-19 Thread Dan Morrill
their apps to the limit of what they can do, and allow Google to focus the prizes on groups delivering what people want. Just a thought. Al. Dan Morrill wrote: Oops. Looks like that page was collateral damage when we did the move to developer.android.com http://developer.android.com. We're

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-13 Thread Dan Morrill
The user account you indicated was indeed disabled due to suspicious high-volume activity, indicative of an attempted denial-of-service attack or similar inappropriate activity. We do not provide any more detail than that in such cases. Presumably this was related to this work, although we have

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-13 Thread Dan Morrill
stopped approximately two or three weeks ago. So I guess I'm not sure why this was an issue right now - more than two weeks later? -Tim On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Dan Morrill morri...@google.com wrote: The user account you indicated was indeed disabled due to suspicious high-volume activity

[android-developers] Re: asking about previous SDK Versions

2009-03-12 Thread Dan Morrill
Hello! Thanks for pointing this out; it looks like the Previous SDK Releases link was broken when we migrated to the new developer.android.comsite. We will fix this as soon as possible. In the meantime, here are direct links to the M5 SDKs:

[android-developers] Re: (OT) Is the combination of Android Market and Google Checkout a joke?

2009-03-09 Thread Dan Morrill
Actually, in this case I'm going to go ahead and request that we move conversations of this type to android-discuss. Normally, for our other developer products we wouldn't make such a request: anything and everything related to the product is welcome. For instance, discussions about this sort of

[android-developers] Re: Is there no TCK (Technology Compatibility Kit) on Android????

2009-03-09 Thread Dan Morrill
Hello! We are indeed preparing the compatibility process and program for Android. We'll announce the details of that program when they are finalized; however, there are currently no resources for this. - Dan On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:42 AM, rookiejava rookiej...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All!!!

[android-developers] Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-01-06 Thread Dan Morrill
We have been working on some documentation to help developers localize their applications, in anticipation of Android devices becoming available in more countries. (You might have seen some information on this via an email to Android Market developers, recently.) We bumped into a couple issues

[android-developers] Re: Could Chinese developper register Android market?

2009-01-02 Thread Dan Morrill
This is false. As we've said, developers will receive 70% of the Android Market revenue for their apps, when billing is available. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/10/android-market-now-available-for-users.html - Dan On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Shane Isbell shane.isb...@gmail.com

[android-developers] Re: Multipart Messages - Is there an example how to get them work now. (Uploading to a web API)

2008-08-18 Thread Dan Morrill
To shed a bit more light, the reason the multi-part APIs were removed is because those APIs will not be final in the upstream Apache HTTPClient in time for Android's schedule for a final 1.0 version. Rather than ship an early/incompatible API, we chose to remove it, and rely on other libraries as

[android-developers] Re: OTA Implementation in SDK?

2008-08-18 Thread Dan Morrill
What do you mean by OTA in this context? - Dan On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Shane Isbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Is there an OTA implementation with the latest SDK? I couldn't find it in the docs. In the upcoming 1.0? Shane --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[android-developers] Re: OTA Implementation in SDK?

2008-08-18 Thread Dan Morrill
and installations of apks. On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Dan Morrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean by OTA in this context? - Dan On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Shane Isbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Is there an OTA implementation with the latest SDK? I couldn't find

[android-developers] Re: Spammer - Google staff can you block this dude? mahamod ahamad [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-06-09 Thread Dan Morrill
Yes, spam on our lists recently got much worse. Presumably the spammers are exploiting the Gmail captcha issue to create Groups accounts and spam groups. The general technique is that they create accounts, spam with them until they get banned, and then switch to new accounts. We're trying to

[android-developers] Re: GTalk connection very slow?

2008-03-29 Thread Dan Morrill
Hello! With the current implementation, it can indeed take a long time for GTalk to connect to the servers. If you are saying that it takes a long time for the network connection to complete, that may not be unusual. We are working on improving the network performance of the GTalk service in