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    <p>The emulator that comes with ADK for use under Eclipse is fine for testing basic Android application functionality, but:</p> <ul> <li>it's not very performant</li> <li>it doesn't reflect real-world hardware and software configurations</li> <li>it doesn't support varying input devices such as d-pads, touch screens, trackballs or even Bluetooth/USB controllers.</li> </ul> <p>Android Developer posts some very helpful rolling graphs of Platform versions, Screen sizes and densities, and OpenGL ES versions as extracted from Android Market:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html" rel="noreferrer">http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html</a></li> <li><a href="http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/screens.html" rel="noreferrer">http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/screens.html</a></li> <li><a href="http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/opengl.html" rel="noreferrer">http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/opengl.html</a></li> </ul> <p>Those really help to narrow the scope of some of the choices, but I find myself really wanting to know what the proportions of input methods various devices support are... is touch represented by 90% of the market, or only 5%? What proportion of those support multi-touch?</p> <p>For example... anyone who has played the free and open source game Replica Island ( <a href="http://replicaisland.net/" rel="noreferrer">http://replicaisland.net/</a> ) will know that how you control the game varies between devices because it supports multiple input methods. I think Chris and Genki have done a fantastic job here, but if you use touch screens you know that the game is much more playable on 5-7 inch devices than it is on 10+ inch devices. This is because the left-right slide control doesn't maintain the same physical size as the screen size increases - meaning that you have to move too far on large touch screen devices (such as Honeycomb tablets) to be comfortable.</p> <p>These are the sorts of issues you only find out when you start using various hardware devices to do your testing on. Or you can wait until users do your testing for you and start bringing your app ratings down.</p> <p>So after my long introduction, here are my questions to you:</p> <ol> <li>What collection of hardware devices have you bought to use in your software development and have you found those choices to have been beneficial or detrimental?</li> <li>Do you instead use 3rd party testing services and just tolerate the long turnaround times between test reports (hours/days instead of instant gratification)?</li> </ol>
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