[android-developers] Re: Android SDK is the must buggy SDK in the entire mobile ecosystem.

They really do not like Windows at Google. I remember a news item
claiming that they were requiring all of their own developers to get
off of Windows and use either Ubuntu Linux or Apple OS X for
development.

Of course, they were supposed to continue to test for Windows
compatibility before release (and I am sure they do), but it is not
only at Google where they are best at testing and catching bugs in the
environment that they themselves use.

Strange though: I had no such problem when I upgraded my Win7 system's
Eclipse installation to use the latest Android SDK. But this is an
often overlooked factor in testing. Though it may be worse on Windows,
it is true on any platform: one user's installation will work just
fine, but another's will fail, even though both are the same OS and
very similar configuration. This is why test matrices have to be
carefully designed -- and tend to be large when they are.

As for 'alpha' level, yes, it is frustrating. But let's not forget: it
was Netscape that started the lamentable habit of putting alpha level
code out there and calling it 'beta'.

On Oct 28, 7:52 am, Peter Sinnott <psinn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are a lot of tools for helping with issues like this.
>
> http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/
>
> Kinda sad really. It makes it look like no one in the installer team
> bothers to test with the most popular platform.
>
> On Oct 28, 1:48 pm, sblantipodi <perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org> wrote:
>
> > Obviously I closed everything before posting here, the problem is
> > that the SDK Manager isn't able to rename the folder because it is
> > using it itself -_-
>
> > On Oct 28, 2:43 pm, Kostya Vasilyev <kmans...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Close any processes that may be using this folder: Explorer, any command
> > > line windows, Eclipse...
>
> > > To be fair, installers are usually able to deal with this (file used by
> > > application "xxx", click here to close, or click here to retry, or click
> > > here to complete after reboot...)
>
> > > -- Kostya
>
> > > 28.10.2011 16:35, sblantipodi пишет:
>
> > > >http://postimage.org/image/8nqmbfarj/
> > > > Clearly no software is using the tools directly except for the SDK
> > > > Manager itself.
> > > > I really can't belive that google is offering similar products to
> > > > developers.
>
> > > > I have no time to loose behing this.
>
> > > --
> > > Kostya Vasilyev

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