Re:First Preview of Android N: Developer APIs and Tools
by pjmlp on Thursday March 10, 2016 @12:46AM
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The premise of a portable framework is to allow me to write my code in a portable way across multiple operating systems.
If I have to spend time writing bindings to OS APIs and faking UI widgets for each OS I am targeting, then the framework is not doing anything to help me, rather on the contrary.
As extra info, on 5.3 some of the C++ widgets render on Android as if it was a desktop. Just try to use a Qr file selector on your phone.
Apparently this has worked so well that 5.6 is going to have yet another re-write of the controls.
If I have to spend time writing bindings to OS APIs and faking UI widgets for each OS I am targeting, then the framework is not doing anything to help me, rather on the contrary.
As extra info, on 5.3 some of the C++ widgets render on Android as if it was a desktop. Just try to use a Qr file selector on your phone.
Apparently this has worked so well that 5.6 is going to have yet another re-write of the controls.