[android-developers] Re: HTC Hero does not support colored LEDs (SDK way) - What can developers do in these cases? [Follow up from android-platform]

Anybody who relies on the LED colors working isn't reading the Android
documentation. That is explicitly a best-efforts sort of thing, and so
the Hero's functionality is within the documented parameters.

It'd be *nice* if they supported colors, but it is not required.

> <festival.s...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> This confirmed my fear that
>> HTC is breaking the funcionality of notifications offered in the
>> Android SDK.

No, they are not. Read the documentation. You will see that ledARGB
explicitly states:

"The hardware will do its best approximation".

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html#ledARGB

In this case, the Hero's "best approximation" is weak, but it is not
"breaking the funcionality [sic] of notifications".

Note that there may be other compatibility issues with the Hero, ones
that run counter to the documentation, and those do need to be
addressed. But it will not help our case to be inventing fake problems.
Focus on the ones where the Hero clearly violates the documentation, not
merely where the Hero violates what you'd like to have.

--
Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)
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Android Development Wiki: http://wiki.andmob.org

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