Android Developers Upset With Google
Techtree News Staff, Jul 16, 2008 1835 hrs IST
The Android developer community is livid about the lack of transarency regarding the Android SDK.
The third-party software developer community for Google's Linux-based Android seems to be very upset with the Internet giant over the absence of public software development kit (SDK) updates. The reason behind this not just the regular lack of update but also lack of transparency.
In fact, Nicolas Gramlich, the operator of AndDev.org - an online Android developer forum has gone ahead and filed a petition on Google's official Android discussion platform complaining about the lack of updates, lack of communication and unresolved bugs. "I'm starting this petition, to express my personal frustration about the release cycles and the information policy of the Android SDK. Before m5 we were waiting about 2 months, now we are waiting almost 4 months! Partially the SDK is buggy (i.e.: the MediaPlayer) and features like built-in Geocoding are not working," wrote Gramlich.
This petition has received support from various other third-party developers expressing similar frustration and concern over the SDK updates.
Just to add to this problem, now there are reports saying that Google is making the new versions of the SDK secretly available to the Android Developer Challenge (ADC) finalists under a non-disclosure agreement.
This news was leaked when David McLaughlin, an employee at Google accidentally sent a notification of a new SDK release to a public Android mailing list. The message, which was intended only for ADC Round Two entrants, says that SDK build 84853 is available through the private ADC download site. A detailed report on the same is available on Ars Technica.
Amidst this avalanche of unofficial communication comes a defiant note from Jean-Baptiste Queru, an Android engineer at Google. Queru has said, "We (the Google Android team) are very much focusing on playing our part in getting an Android device on the shelves as soon as we possibly can, and that focus comes at the expense of other tasks, like getting an SDK out. Read the complete response here.
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