[android-developers] Re: HTC Hero does not support colored LEDs (SDK way) - What can developers do in these cases? [Follow up from android-platform]

2009-10-21 Thread Streets Of Boston
Not good to hear this. This means, like JBQ said, that they (whoever 'they' is) need to really tighten the compatibility reqs. Google puts a lot of effort in to make it as easy as possible to support various devices but if manufactures (or even OHA members) are becoming lax... Most of the

[android-developers] Re: HTC Hero does not support colored LEDs (SDK way) - What can developers do in these cases? [Follow up from android-platform]

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Murphy
Anybody who relies on the LED colors working isn't reading the Android documentation. That is explicitly a best-efforts sort of thing, and so the Hero's functionality is within the documented parameters. It'd be *nice* if they supported colors, but it is not required.

[android-developers] Re: HTC Hero does not support colored LEDs (SDK way) - What can developers do in these cases? [Follow up from android-platform]

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Murphy
code_android_festival_way wrote: Well I understand your point. But I don't think that users will understand that point. (even when they had devices that supported colored LEDs) You are the one who wrote an app that offered control over LED colors that you were not in position to commit to.

[android-developers] Re: HTC Hero does not support colored LEDs (SDK way) - What can developers do in these cases? [Follow up from android-platform]

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Murphy
Disconnect wrote: Er, the hardware approximation of orange should be orange, no? Please point out in the documentation where it says that. You are trying to apply logic here. When it comes to matching documented specs, logic gets tossed out, just as when it comes to following legal documents,

[android-developers] Re: HTC Hero does not support colored LEDs (SDK way) - What can developers do in these cases? [Follow up from android-platform]

2009-10-21 Thread code_android_festival_way
Ok thank you. I was not aware of the android.os.Build.MODEL.. Anyway the users will get all the things that are possible with the specific device and I will exclude the devices that do not support the features. For yourself colored LEDs may not be important but for users loving silent alarms

[android-developers] Re: HTC Hero does not support colored LEDs (SDK way) - What can developers do in these cases? [Follow up from android-platform]

2009-10-21 Thread Disconnect
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Disconnect wrote: Er, the hardware approximation of orange should be orange, no? Please point out in the documentation where it says that. You are trying to apply logic here. When it comes to matching documented

[android-developers] Re: HTC Hero does not support colored LEDs (SDK way) - What can developers do in these cases? [Follow up from android-platform]

2009-10-20 Thread code_android_festival_way
HTC replied now that colored LEDs are NOT supported by the custom Android version installed on the HTC Hero. This confirmed my fear that HTC is breaking the funcionality of notifications offered in the Android SDK. From my point of view it is just a starting point of problems we will see with