[android-developers] Re: Career as an Andoid developer. Is there any point?

I understand the priorities. What I mean by "extremely simple to do"
is, there is the well designed ContactsContract API, which can
"easily" be extended to support reading SMS and e-mails as well.
However, life is life, and different people have different priorities.
It's understandable, although not always pleasant. At least the code
of Android is available to everybody and it's possible to find your
way by reading it.

On May 26, 10:26 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> SMS and other app-related APIs (e-mail etc) are outside of my area of
> responsibility (which is the core platform).  Generally though these things
> aren't exposed because the people responsible for them aren't ready to
> commit to an API they will maintain and have other higher priorities they
> need to deal with than implementing such an API.
>
> Saying "it is extremely simple to do" does not make it so. :)  No API is
> extremely simple, just because along with it you have to account for
> documentation, QA, CTS tests, and the need to maintain compatibility with it
> for many years in the future.
>

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