Comments on: Android Developer Challenge http://www.unpocodetodo.com/2008/05/04/android-developer-challenge/ My personal musings about a little of everything Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:43:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 <img class='wavatar' border='' src='http://www.unpocodetodo.com/wp-content/cache/wavatars/21e8bb24100ec0d77.png' width='80' height='80'>By: Enrique http://www.unpocodetodo.com/2008/05/04/android-developer-challenge/#comment-91 Enrique Thu, 15 May 2008 13:15:46 +0000 http://www.unpocodetodo.com/2008/05/04/android-developer-challenge/#comment-91 Hi Carlos, I am an ADC participant for Madrid (Three group submissions). Sadly, we didn't pass the first cut, but we really appreciate your post, since there hasn`t been much feedback from Google yet. You say judges must ignore requests from entrants until they finish their role. My question is: Are you open to discuss about submitted applications after the challenge (round 2) has finished? Regards, Enrique. Hi Carlos,

I am an ADC participant for Madrid (Three group submissions). Sadly, we didn’t pass the first cut, but we really appreciate your post, since there hasn`t been much feedback from Google yet.

You say judges must ignore requests from entrants until they finish their role. My question is: Are you open to discuss about submitted applications after the challenge (round 2) has finished?

Regards,
Enrique.

]]> <img class='wavatar' border='' src='http://www.unpocodetodo.com/wp-content/cache/wavatars/395c9a6181fd5e25e.png' width='80' height='80'>By: insider http://www.unpocodetodo.com/2008/05/04/android-developer-challenge/#comment-90 insider Tue, 06 May 2008 08:50:37 +0000 http://www.unpocodetodo.com/2008/05/04/android-developer-challenge/#comment-90 I think the Android emulator is slow because of its own nature. It allows us to develop and test applications in an actual Android runtime environment, equipped with valuable add-ons: a virtual machine monitor, tools for tracing log data, etc. Besides, you have received a bit old IBM pack... and I know that the emulator is kind of RAM-eater... :-) As far as the browser is concerned, I would expect a similar behaviour to iPhone's one because both of them are based in WebKit (http://webkit.org), the open source web browser engine used by Safari and other MacOS X applications. With regard to how the phone apps are displayed on the emulator, you seem to have received a pack with the m3 version of the platform, whereas the last version is the m5 which has a quite a bit different look&feel (http://www.phonemag.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/android_feb08_sdk_one.jpg). I think the Android emulator is slow because of its own nature. It allows us to develop and test applications in an actual Android runtime environment, equipped with valuable add-ons: a virtual machine monitor, tools for tracing log data, etc. Besides, you have received a bit old IBM pack… and I know that the emulator is kind of RAM-eater… :-)
As far as the browser is concerned, I would expect a similar behaviour to iPhone’s one because both of them are based in WebKit (http://webkit.org), the open source web browser engine used by Safari and other MacOS X applications.

With regard to how the phone apps are displayed on the emulator, you seem to have received a pack with the m3 version of the platform, whereas the last version is the m5 which has a quite a bit different look&feel (http://www.phonemag.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/android_feb08_sdk_one.jpg).

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