Cupcake is catastrophe, claims Big in Japan dev

[LazyGenius]

WOW.. this is noooo good... We are gonna get the app OTA, without testing... I can see soo many people complain already... A good 2-4 weeks with problems.. Can some of us just deny the update for a little while?

maybe your reading something different from me but cupcake will be tested... its the APPS that will go untested.(maybe...)

[DrVeronica]

Hopefully it will weed out a bunch of lame and useless apps

like the 1,000 themes on there?

[LazyGenius]

like the 1,000 themes on there?

themes arent useless to the ppl that use em... they just need their own seperate category...

[Student]

Or Get Organized Properly.

[gabemorr]

I'm runing TheDude's .8 cupcake release and most apps work fine for me, just needs a bit more work and I think Cupcake will be fine.

I've never had problems running shopsavvy on the cupcake builds ive tried, the only one that doesnt work is PowerManager

[atoy74]

I imagine the biggest disappointment, from what I'm reading, are the known issues not being addressed. There are issues that should be addressed and those that must be addressed.

The must list includes:

Data transfer by Bluetooth; (needed it this weekend)

Functioning wifi; (need it 90% of the time)

Email that works for IMAP and POP3; (need all the time)

Ability to receive and download ALL attachments on the phone (email). (Need often)

Ability to stop ALL data roaming and keep apps from over riding. (When traveling, need all the time).

No offense but your list sounds pretty specific to you. Cupcake is bringing a wealth of new and enhanced features many of which better the entire community.

As for your list -

Data transfer by Bluetooth; (needed it this weekend) - Very small percentage of users "must" have this feature. Therefore, should Google really make it a priority?

Functioning wifi; (need it 90% of the time) - What's wrong with your Wifi? Mine works 100% of the time.

Email that works for IMAP and POP3; (need all the time) - Have you tried K-9? Excellent app and is the open sourced version of Android's Mail app.

Ability to receive and download ALL attachments on the phone (email). (Need often) - Yes, this should be fixed. Business folk cannot be slowed by their tech.

Ability to stop ALL data roaming and keep apps from over riding. (When traveling, need all the time). Agreed, there are enough users to justify the fix. Although, from what I've read, this is a much bigger issue. Google is based on "cloud computing" and is dependent on connectivity.

Fortunately Google will continue to better the OS. We'll have updates passed 1.5

[atoy74]

However according to some reports, Cupcake will be pushed as an over-the-air to Android device owners in just two days, and it’s already live in Spain.

My jaw dropped when I read that Cupcake may be out in two days. Where can I find that report? I tired the link but doesn't mention.

[scrannel]

No offense but your list sounds pretty specific to you. Cupcake is bringing a wealth of new and enhanced features many of which better the entire community.

As for your list - (And my response in italic):

Data transfer by Bluetooth; (needed it this weekend) - Very small percentage of users "must" have this feature. Therefore, should Google really make it a priority? In your world, maybe. I don't know any business user who doesn't need this feature. Plus, I can transfer files to and from my laptop even if I don't happen to have a cable in my back pocket.

Functioning wifi; (need it 90% of the time) - What's wrong with your Wifi? Mine works 100% of the time. Come on, this is a known issue -- that's why there are a half dozen apps to "fix" it.

Email that works for IMAP and POP3; (need all the time) - Have you tried K-9? Excellent app and is the open sourced version of Android's Mail app. K9 doesn't work with my very basic POP3 account, others have this issue; stock app works, but you cannot download all but a few attachments.

Ability to receive and download ALL attachments on the phone (email). (Need often) - Yes, this should be fixed. Business folk cannot be slowed by their tech. The phone "can" already do this.. just rename the extension on any file to *.jpg and it will allow you to download it. How is this a big fix?

Ability to stop ALL data roaming and keep apps from over riding. (When traveling, need all the time). Agreed, there are enough users to justify the fix. Although, from what I've read, this is a much bigger issue. Google is based on "cloud computing" and is dependent on connectivity. My son's iPhone can reliably shut down all data roaming when we are in Europe.

Fortunately Google will continue to better the OS. We'll have updates passed 1.5

[happyandyv]

palm pre FTW??

It's crossed my mind WELL more than a few times... but.. Not really all to sure about the chin slider style.. will have to have a hands on.

[whtdrgn101]

I have to say I'm blessed that my app didn't have any compatibility problems, but that's because it's a very simple app. The bigger concern for me is that I can't take advantage of the new features within Cupcake without breaking compatibility on the old app. I'm going to re-release my app under a different name so I can maintain the old rc33 version and the new cupcake version. Ugh...