everyone vote for the spectrum to be on xda!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1660354&page=429
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1660354&page=429
I put my 2 cents in loleveryone vote for the spectrum to be on xda!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1660354&page=429
True, but most of the fly-by-night devs I've seen that say they are willing to work on it are nothing more then porters and skinners. "Oh, I'll work on it once someone gets CM9 functional". Sorry, getting CM9 functional is the battle, not putting a skin on it and calling it "insert ROM name". The core group we having going right now seems to be the only ones that truly care at this point. When I see another dev step up and help fix either our bluetooth issue or getting data functional on CM9, I'll be extremely impressed.
/end rant.
but everything is googleable
I guess I'm not sure what an XDA forum would bring you that you don't already have here?
Is it just to get one or do you feel that developers are missing something here?
+1True, but most of the fly-by-night devs I've seen that say they are willing to work on it are nothing more then porters and skinners. "Oh, I'll work on it once someone gets CM9 functional". Sorry, getting CM9 functional is the battle, not putting a skin on it and calling it "insert ROM name". The core group we having going right now seems to be the only ones that truly care at this point. When I see another dev step up and help fix either our bluetooth issue or getting data functional on CM9, I'll be extremely impressed.
/end rant.
You've came along way in the few months I've known you.So start reading. I knew jack about deving android before I bought the spec. I played around with my droid 1 a lot, but never got into the guts of it. Everything I've learned, I've learned from google. Yeah, I had a back round in linux before hand and that has helped, but everything is googleable. Right now I'm pulling down the source code for MSM, but it's taking for ever with my constant net drops. I plan on going thru and trying till I find something that works. Hopefully TDM beats me to the punch, but at least I'm trying. That's what we really need. People to try, even if it doesn't work.
Well I think most of that has been covered, I feel AF is more of a users forum than a development forum. I mean look at how many links to xda or rootz gets posted here on how to do or fix something.I guess I'm not sure what an XDA forum would bring you that you don't already have here?
Is it just to get one or do you feel that developers are missing something here?
I have been on both sides of that. Some devs, or so they call themselves, are down right asshats. Other are just as helpful as I am, some are the post stuff poop type, some are umm... worthless, some are just after the fame and glory, some are just after donations of any kind with no real intent of doing anything other than kanging someone elses shyt n claiming it as their work. Which we have here way too much esp when some of us call them out as we see em... but thats a diff debate lol.Personally I avoid XDA, most of the devs there can be outright rude (sometimes with good reason, but it's still unnecessary; Neph is a perfect example of a dev that can handle repetitive noob questions very patiently ) and as Neph mentioned many of them are not really even devs, just porters and themers... I will not install anything on my phone that was messed with by somebody that doesn't know what they are doing. We've had a few come and go here, making big promises that they couldn't deliver on, that would be a bigger problem on XDA. I say if someone's interested in deving for the Spectrum let them come here, where the core knowledge and experience already exists.
So start reading. I knew jack about deving android before I bought the spec. I played around with my droid 1 a lot, but never got into the guts of it. Everything I've learned, I've learned from google. Yeah, I had a back round in linux before hand and that has helped, but everything is googleable. Right now I'm pulling down the source code for MSM, but it's taking for ever with my constant net drops. I plan on going thru and trying till I find something that works. Hopefully TDM beats me to the punch, but at least I'm trying. That's what we really need. People to try, even if it doesn't work.
With CM, PA, or AOKP there is no reason to dirty port it when src is readily available.I've seen some devs just come along for no real reason and port a rom to a phone just because. Maybe, oh hey you guys have ICS now, let me snip a kernel and a few libs from your rom , ok here's Paranoid Android, or AOKP, or Evervolv
With CM, PA, or AOKP there is no reason to dirty port it when src is readily available.
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