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JBQ On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > JBQ, > > Can you pass up the chain that the 'phrase > > "...you can be sure that you'll have an official SDK for a > cupcake-originated release as soon as possible." > > should be planned to be a point in time (hopefully a couple of weeks) before > a carrier releases a device with it on. > > I'm sure you're aware there's no bigger recipe for pain than when the first > people to test applications on a new release of a platform are users who are > trying out a new 'phone in a shop. > > Al. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jean-Baptiste > Queru > Sent: 24 March 2009 15:39 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [android-developers] Re: Cupcake coming in April? Where is the SDK? > > > 1.1 was essentially a update of a few Google-proprietary bits on top of the > same platform as 1.0. > From the point of view of the Android platform (and therefore of the SDK as > well), the differences between 1.0 and 1.1 are extremely minor. > > Cupcake is a branch name, it's not a released version. A future numbered > release will be cut from the cupcake branch, but that product isn't ready > yet, and therefore there can be no SDK yet. > > As cupcake contains significant platform changes compared to 1.0/1.1, you > can be sure that you'll have an official SDK for a cupcake-originated > release as soon as possible. > > JBQ > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:16 AM, tauntz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I just hope that this time the release date for the official SDK will >> be BEFORE the update hits the masses. Not like it was with the 1.1SDK >> - it was released way after 1.1 was released to end-users (the >> argument from Google was something in the lines of "Hey, this is a >> small release with no mayor changes so don't whine that you get it so >> late"). Maybe I'm the only one who thinks that this is ridiculous.. >> One of the reasons why we don't have the official 1.5 (or cupcake or >> however it will be officially called) SDK is that "It's not stable >> enough" - fair enough but I really hope that you guys @ Google will >> release it as soon as the code is stable enough (eg the code is tested >> and ready to be released to the operators). That would give us a week >> (maybe more) before the operators push it to the end-users. >> >> And don't come with the "you can build your own SDK from the >> opensource tree if you want" - the last releases didn't come from the >> opensource tree so even if I wanted, i couldn't build the SDK based on >> the code that's shipped to the end-users. And even if this release >> will actually come from the public tree, you can't expect all app >> developers to build their own SDK, can you? We need an official SDK - >> and we need it as soon as the tree is stable enough (and way before >> it's pushed to the carriers/end-users) >> >> >> Tauno >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:38 AM, AndroidApp <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Not if you stay anonymous (hint, hint) ;-) >>> >>> On Mar 23, 7:58 pm, Anonymous Anonymous >>> <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> " Someone from Google? " makes it official i guess :D >>>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:47 AM, AndroidApp <[email protected]> > wrote: >>>> >>>> > Can someone capable just compile the SDK and post it online for >>>> > everyone? Someone from Google? I dont really care if it's not >>>> > official, i just dont want to download the source tree just to >>>> > build the SDK, plus i need to do the tricks you mentioned to make >>>> > it work on windows. >>>> >>>> > On Mar 23, 1:11 pm, Marco Nelissen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > > I certainly hope there aren't "a lot" of applications that use >>>> > > reflection and private APIs. >>>> >>>> > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:59 AM, zl25drexel >>>> > > <[email protected]> >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>> > > > Cupcake is coming, and as you know it will break a lot of apps >>>> > > > in the market, those that use reflection & private api. So >>>> > > > where is the Cupcake SDK/emulator for us to try our apps? >>>> >>>> > > > I know we can download the source codes and build it, and I >>>> > > > know apps wont break if they dont use undocumented api, blah >>>> > > > blah blah, but we should get an official SDK/emulator for >>>> > > > cupcake, dont you think, google? >>> > >>> >> >> > >> > > > > -- > Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru > Android Engineer, Google. > > Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private will > likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further warning. > > > > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further warning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. 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