Cupcake is catastrophe, claims Big in Japan dev

[Scythe]

Originally Posted by jroid

why are ppl saying cupcake has been rushed?? everybody has been waiting for cupcake to drop for months now. it was added to the master branch a while back and devs still don't have their apps ready for cupcake, then when it finally gets released devs and ppl say it was rushed?????? i in part understand them, what google should have done was release the official sdk first a week or 2 before rolling out cupcake. but still there are apps in the market that were cupcake friendly even way before cupcake was released.

It's rushed because we just got an SDK to test our apps on. Let alone we can't version our apps for multiple SDK's. Basically Google's releasing an OS in which users expect apps to just work, even though there's fundamental structure changes many apps will have to make or they'll crash.

Specifically the apps that access system controls like wifi, have heavy UI elements, etc. (a lot of what ShopSavvy does)

Also dev's that update their apps for 1.5 right now that make use of the new uri's and similar, will crash out for the rc33 users. This should work like a regular software repository, where dependencies are listed in the package to avoid this issue.

Out of all the roll outs I've been in, this is the worst thus far.