Just my luck

3/23/2012

Pretty well ready to release PCDB SuDoku Solver to the waiting world. It's signed with my private key, doesn't have any debug capability, and runs OK on my tablet. Oh, and then Android released a new version of the SDK. Downloaded and installed it, and then discovered that it has a whole new set of ideas and gadgets to manage the UI of Android Apps. Rather a lot of PCDB SuDoku Solver confirms to it, as I've been tracking the tablet-oriented changes that have been released since Honeycomb (API 3.2). But some don't. It's decision time.

Do I hold off releasing it and carry out a major overhaul of the UI?

Or do I release it anyway, and review the UI features in the next major release?

As the new UI guidelines are aimed specifically at Ice Cream Sandwich (API 4.0) I've decided to go with the second. It'll be out this weekend.

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Peter Wiles

Peter has been writing software since going up to Manchester University in 1965, the first year that the University offered Computer Science as a B.Sc course. After gaining a B.Sc and M.Sc in Computer Science, he joined the British company ICL (later renamed Fujitsu Services) and worked there for 36 years, initially as a designer working on the development of the VME mainframe operating system. Later years were spent as a Systems Architect specialising in large Government and private sector customers including the DTI, European Commission, MAV (Hungarian Railways), the UK Post Office and HM Revenue & Customs. He retired from Fujitsu in 2007 and has devoted much of his time since to developing software for his own use and, more recently, to make available via the Android marketplace. Some of this software is aimed at supporting his other principal interest, sailing and maintaining his Westerly Seahawk yacht which he has recently moved to Troon in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.

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