Some Android questions

[jcarlson23-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Jared Carlson)]

Hey Doug,

I suppose I should put my two cents in here since I asked.  I do hear you that some of the App store processes can drive you nuts but for the most part that's been getting better and better.  The first app I submitted for approval took about 2 weeks to get approved.  The last took about 2-3 days and the one time I violated the app store process - I called a private function - they accepted the app but asked me to make a substitute call, which was no big deal.  I haven't done any R rated apps but I've seen some apps I certainly wouldn't give to my kids...

In terms of the kernel, Anthony, from my brief experience at looking at it, you've basically seconded what I've seen.  I cloned the adroid repo the other day and I believe in the bionic folder they house their BSD/Linux hybrid OS and as I delved deeper it looked like a little swiss cheese of various pieces.  I noticed they have their optimized JVM but as I said, most of the folks I know are putting optimized C code on Droid phones to get that performance they want and so this mish-mash seems in line with what you've mentioned.

It will be interesting though as a lot of folks are betting on Android...  

Anyway, thanks for the thoughts!

- Jared




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From: Doug <dougsweetser-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
To: discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
Sent: Sun, February 28, 2010 4:56:57 PM
Subject: Re: Some Android questions

Hello Anthony:

I am far more bothered by the "Apps Store" way of delivering software
that must be approved.  They are making sure there store is "clean",
removing R rated apps.  It is not a platform I think I can tinker with
since somewhere I need to get approval from Apple.  Maybe that process
is not that difficult, but I would go bonkers waiting even a day to
get software I wrote on a device I own.

Doug