Re: [android-developers] Re: Growing pains for Android developers??

Dianne,

Nice to have response from someone inside Google.

Do you know when is 2.0 image available for ADP?

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Dianne Hackborn <hackbod@android.com> wrote:

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Kieran <kieran.fleming@gmail.com> wrote:

Android 2 SDK released: 27th Oct
Droid released: 6th Nov
So that's 9 days (with a weekend) to test our apps at the new
resolution, make any necessary fixes, then deploy to the Market. I
don't think that's enough, and ultimately it's the Droid users that
suffer.

Android 1.6 was released earlier with multiple screen support being one of the big new features.  This is not a new feature in 2.0, and in fact there will be devices shipping on 1.6 with different screens (I believe the Tattoo QVGA device is an example).  We also started beating the drum as soon as 1.6 was available for people to update their apps, telling developers that there would soon be devices appearing with different screens.  For example: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/10/support-for-additional-screen.html

Not that I think it is okay to have so little time between the SDK and devices shipping, but this particular case of supporting different screen sizes is a bad example of the issue.  The new contacts API would be better if you want to point at something.

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Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
hackbod@android.com

Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails.  All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them.

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