Once and Only Once : Feeling constrained.

Feeling constrained.

Daz — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:02:02 +0100

Despite Android being much more open than iPhone there is still a lot of "Sorry, you can't do this. " and "it is not possible" on the android developer group.

"Feeling constrained." by Kevin McDonagh

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:28:32 +0100

Yes I think those types of functions are the ones which google were obliged by the carriers to cordon off. Also in my experience there are a lot of corporates who have until now had businesses which rely on certain types of functionality being offered at a premium (synch, voice mail, conferencing) I don't doubt that they have had a hand in the OHAs rulings about what a rooted and unrooted phone can do.

"Feeling constrained." by daz

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:31:20 +0100

Not a lot, just started really - I've been making an app to reproduce functionality I have on my current phone but it requires being able to programmatically pick up or hang up/ignore which is not possible without rooting the phone.
I've made reasonable progress and hadn't thought to check - I just assumed that answering and hanging up was possible, I mean... it's a phone!

"Feeling constrained." by Kevin McDonagh

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:52:31 +0100

Are you doing a lot of android dev work? I'd love to chat about it one evening on IM or on the phone. I have had very mixed results with the groups and the irc forums. There are a few core who are very helpful (mostly on the sndroid team) but the majority of the time harder questions have been left high and dry. My best documentation has been looking through others related android projects on google code. Are you on git hub? I'm there as 'kevinmcdonagh'.