Android :: Cup Cake SDKs Available For Download
Apr 5, 2009
I've compiled up the Linux & Mac OS X Intel SDKs from the public git repository and have put them up for download (If anyone can get instructions on building a Windows SDK I will do what I can to create a Windows SDK as well). *PLEASE NOTE* In order to ensure that I don't end up with a massive bandwidth bill you will need to log into AndAppStore to download the SDKs, and, if things get silly, download limits may be introduced. You are, of course, free to pass on the SDK to as many people as you want after you've downloaded, but please do not pass around links to direct downloads without logins at AndAppStore because I'd like to continue to update them but if a bandwidth cost issue comes up then I won't. Anyway, once you've logged into AndAppStore the link to the Cupcake SDKs is in the Developers Area menu on the right of the page. * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries.
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Apr 11, 2009
Now before I start on the iPhone comparison I'm going to pre-empt the normal "But Android is open source....." response by saying lets be honest and admit it as it stands Android is not an open source project because the public "open source" repository is pretty worthless in its' current state.
The last time I tried to build the master branch it failed missing some Google internal API classes. The SDKs I've produce from the cupcake branch seem to be considered by Google employees as pretty useless with comments like "This is why we want to be clear it is "unofficial," because it is not actually a working SDK" being thrown around and networking in the emulator still being broken a week after users started reporting the showstopper problem (And Romain did hint that Google have a fix, I read http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/41fcefc36bd16d44 as "there is a version where this is fixed"). And as we all know you can't use it to build the exact versions of the open source parts of either of the two firmware versions that have shipped on the G1.
To me it seems little more than code dump which is aimed at ensuring Google can keep saying "But it is open source and not just a Google project"
Now, in the last week I had few conversations with iPhone developers so I could compare the Android developer experience to that of what is perceived as our nearest competitor and they are laughing at us (seriously, when I mentioned the G1 most of them responded by initially chuckling). The general consensus among them was;
- Yes, you pay $99 for the iPhone dev kit, but you get "free" external testing (i.e. at apple) and commercial quality support with many queries being turned around in hours or a couple of days at worst. Compare that to some of the support queries on b.android.com for basic problems things like a Android failing to connect to wireless lans with hidden SSID (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1041) which, after *five and a half months* is still marked as "New" and doesn't have a single response from a Google employee.
- The most common cause of App Store listing rejections are things that users would complain about anyway. This includes things like performance characteristics, UI anomalies, and inconsistent behaviour. This is the type of stuff that is left for users to find out on Android and only comes to light when 1* or 2* comments are posted and even then you don't know if it's a one off on the users device or possibly something specific to their region (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2372).
- The normal amount of time from submission to app store listing is around 7 days. Some apps take months to go through the approval process, but that is because of intellectual property concerns, concerns over offensive content, or is because the app has to be re-reviewed a few times to meet the apples performance and behaviour guidelines. Yes it's not as fast as Android, but you know that once it's on the market it's of a quality where you're not going to get bombarded with user queries about problems straight off.
- Most of the developers actually feel valued by Apple and feel that Apple does what it can to make sure they get the tools they need to do their job and ensure they're apps. This has been re-enforced by allowing the developers to beta test the new firmware and develop against it.
Personally, it's made me shell out $99 for an iPhone SDK, dust off my Nokia N81, and spend $75 on eBay on a Blackberry so I can explore the alternatives.
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Apr 27, 2009
I've upgraded my ADP1 to cupcake through the official roms: http://www.htc.com/ www/ support /android/adp.html#s3 However, the official roms equiped ONLY English locale now. Will the official ADP1 roms equip other locales (e.g., Chinese) in the future?
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Jan 21, 2009
I am using a windows system. Can anyone send me steps on how to checkout the cupcake branch?
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Apr 3, 2009
Do we have more information about the availability of the Android SDK cupcake version? A first phone running on Cupcake should be available this month in France and it should be great to have a SDK exactly the same
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Feb 19, 2009
I have heard a lot about this code base, but have seen nothing.The possabilities are amazing, why are we so limited. If the sceen is multitouch capable, why not use it? When will we see a fix for the issue with the talk button on the headset, or the ability to run apps from the sd card, or the ability to stop running apps. This android os is linux based, yet these issues are holding us back? I am invested in this platform, and I really believe this is important. I hope to see more functionality. We have a platform that can truely compete with the iphone, but we must work hard to perserve our image.
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Sep 22, 2010
I'm configuring a new machine for Android development and moving my current project over. I did a fresh install of all the Android tools and SDKs, and under "build targets", the Google APIs' target supports Android 2.2. Of course I need 1.5 as the base build target. My project doesn't build when I select that because the Google Maps stuff from maps.jar isn't there. In fact, after I did my full install I can't find maps.jar anywhere on my new machine. Is this jar file still required for Google Maps integration, or is it history? I'm using Eclipse 3.5. I guess I'd presume there would be a "google apis" for Android 1.5 build target. I'm thinking my install must be hosed; but maybe it's my understanding.. :)
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Dec 21, 2009
I'm using the level 5 sdk to compile my app, but set my target to sdk level 3 in my manifest. All is fine.
I may need to use some level 5 classes (ExifInterface) though. What's the right way to go about using them while not fouling things up for devices running older sdk versions? Do we simply restrict use of the newer API methods to completely separate class files? Something like this:
CODE:.................
so as long as the api methods are completely separated into files that the older devices won't invoke, we should be ok?
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Apr 15, 2012
When I look at my eclipse android preferences, I can't see any of the SDKs I have installed.I know I have installed the SDKs properly using the SDK manager.This is what the android-sdk directory, along with the platforms directory, looks like:
I am using Eclipse Version: 3.7.2, Build id: M20120208-0800. The original SDK I installed prior to using the android eclipse plugin was eclipse-SDK-3.7.2-win32-x86_64. This environment is running on windows 7.Is there a file missing in the directories posted or are they noted name properly? (i.e. should 'android-15' be named 'Android 4.0.3').
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Aug 27, 2010
Can anybody tell me if there is any animation emotions to send on this phone,, birthday cake etc?
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Sep 22, 2009
I want to be able to download and install my app from my website, but when i do this at the moment i get the error:-
Download unsuccessful - Cannot Download. The content is not supported on the phone.
After looking into this it became apparent that the PHP Magic, that handles the downloads from the website, recognises the file as a .zip file rather then a .apk file and sends the it a .zip, that the phone does not recognise.
Does anyone know a way to get PHP Magic to recognise the file as an apk so that file extension does not get changed and the phone can recognise it?
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Apr 23, 2010
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Aug 4, 2010
I'm tryin to download some roms but I don't get the option to use androzip to download them can anybody walk me through the process?
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Oct 28, 2010
I installed an app yesterday, (appbrain web downloader) but couldn't get appbrain app to download, so I uninstalled the appbrain web app. Today I tried to update a couple apps, and niether would update- either I got a message that said download paused, with no way to re start, our it would just show it as downloading, but not making any progress. I tried to install another app off the market, just to see, and out wouldn't install either....
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Clearing market updater
Rebooting phone
Removing battery and re starting phone
going to titanium backup and wiping market data
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Jun 24, 2010
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This link has three setup SDK zip files, but no where mentioned what version of SDK setup are those? Why such confusions in this Android website for showing just version of SDK setup files? Where i can get exactly Android 1.6 SDK setup download? Could someone point out me clearly?
Is there any special steps that i need to follow to overwrite 1.6 SDK with my existing setup environment?
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