It's pretty clear that XDA is centered around a community of developers and mobile device enthusiasts, rather than a particular platform, company, or carrier. That's why the switch to add non-HTC phones about a year ago has resulted in a fantastic new wave of development for a range of devices.
It's clear that HP's WebOS platform has a bright future. The Veer, Pre 3, and Touchpad were recently announced. These devices have us excited, and curious as to whether the XDA community would benefit if we were to add a forum for WebOS development. We'd start with the platform, rather than a particular device, like we did for Samsung's Bada OS, then see where it comes from there.
What do you think? Add WebOS, or skip it?
I say, Hell yea!
IMO, there's already way too much stuff on XDA and I don't think WebOS will ever really take off...
ever since xda has come out of the exclusive to htc phones phase, id say that we would have to add WebOS. its just the natural step forward...
Hell yea!
Don't ask, just do it
+1 on this
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IMO, there's already way too much stuff on XDA and I don't think WebOS will ever really take off...
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I say yes. I come to XDA everyday and I would love to learn about webos.
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Not a bad idea. XDA has so many members so that's not a problem. XDA must be the biggest and the best community about Mobile OS.
Yes, it is a great idea! Do it!
Another vote in favor...
+1 on webOS.
I love webOS (I have used it for quite a while) and having webOS here on the forum would give me an excuse to read the forums again. And if XDA has a section for the iPhone I don't see why there wouldn't also be a section for HP webOS.
XDA is continuing to grow in size. More enthusiasts and developers are join the comunity. I think XDA should support as many different devices or OSes as possible. I think it should be added. Although I do think with the increase of support and members the site may have to be redesigned aat one point.
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Don't ask, just do it
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While it is nice to have an open dialogue with users, I agree with the above quote, just do it!
Thanks.
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Do it! I think that it'll be great. I'm personally torn between the G-Slate and a WebOS tablet.
More systems more fun!
I would really like to ask "why not?" to those people saying NO to this thread.
Yes. webOS must be added. We all miss the days of HTC only phones on xda sometimes but they're long gone.
Absolutely, WebOS should be added. It's quite possibly the most accepted homebrew platform available to consumers. And to those who there is "too many already", don't read those sections. XDA cleanly organizes the sections.
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Hello Everyone,
I would like to applaud DZO, Mssmison, Vilord, fOObar, Zenulator, SrWalter and any other prognators of the Android Port for a couple different HTC devices. Its a growing concern that we are clogging up the sections dedicated for the WinMo versions of these devices with our Android porting threads. Its been a nice place for us to research and discuss the Android ports for our phones but I must confessed that its getting cluttered in there. I was proposing that we have a new section opened up for Android Porting and subsections for each model of phone that WIP has begun and is usable.
With this implemented in the XDA forums, I believe that there will be more spotlight on the accomplishments so far and open the road for speedier developments on the Android Porting field so that we have more options in the future for which OS we run on our smartphones instead of the one shipped by the manufacture.
I believe in Android on being the next dominent platform for mobile OS due to its lightweight nature, open-sourced, multi-device configurations and powerful tools that come from Google and the beloved community of developers here. I see in the next year Android sales topping those of the crappy Blackberry OS, the cool yet non-functional iPhone OS and the oldschool inadated Windows Mobile OS.
All you have to do is reply to this thread just saying you would like to see this happen.
Thanks Everyone,
Tallnerd
P.S.
Please dont use this thread for FAQs or medium talk.
heck yeah dude this is the best thing to come to the vogue!
+1 for android section on XDA
I, the undersigned, agree to this.
make it so
I agree. It would be nice to have all the android stuff in one place insted of scattered between the various phone's forums.
+1 for Android section
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Hahahaha, thank you all for your support in this project and so far the progress is good so please keep up the good work and sign your name.
Would be great to have a section for Android dev - anything to help keep the development momentum going.
+1 An Android Section would be great.
Yes, a MUCH needed thing. The ports are great, but for a month it seems like they have dominated the Vogue section
I totally agree. It's stepped away from normal development and taken on it's own life.
+ 1, would help cross-furtulize development and respondto commen user questions ..
This is it?? Come on people, we need to get more signatures than this.
I whole-heatedly agree! +1
Has anyone directly contacted the admin(s)? I feel like the popularity of the multiple development threads is proof enough that an Android division of the Vogue section would be worthwhile.
I agree, but I also think that as well as a general section we need a "Vogue Android Development" subforum like the native android devices have.
+1 to dzos suggestion. +1 to a new forum space as a whole.
just my +2.
I apologize if there's some other place for this that I haven't found but I felt compelled to let the devs here know how much I appreciate your work.
1 day after finding the site I've got new fonts, a better camera app and soon to be a faster phone.
Thanks for all the poking around you've done and apps and tools you've created. I love this platform.
You are welcome. Enjoy
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As a matter of fact I agree with the OP. Just wanted to say thanks!
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^^ who the F is that and why is he/she trying to take credit for ANYTHING?
I agree with the OP too... unfortunately most of those who actually contribute don't read the General section.
I'm just waiting to see how fast even a simple "thank you" thread turns into a flamefest, heh.
I'll might as well start
"OMG WHY are you cluttering our General forum!!!1111one. If you only SEARCHED you would have found a dozen of threads just like this one. This isn't how XDA used to be..."
All kidding aside, even though there's plenty of unnecessary drama and flame wars on the Vibrant forums, all of that is such a small percentage compared to the sheer amount of awesome work we have seen in such a short time from so many people, developers and non-developers alike. With 2.2 looming and beefy hardware that should stay relevant for quite some time, I'm looking forward to even more quality work coming out of the XDA community for our beloved device.
Hey guys just heard this over on twitter and got super excited. I love my Android OS, especially with JT's functional ICS build, but would very much welcome the ability to run a non-hacked together webOS port. It's already running on the HTC Evo 3D (really hacked port) because one of the developers for webOS worked on it before hand. The source code isn't available yet, but there doesn't appear to be any limit on what their releasing aside from some HP only patents. Looks like a good deal to me! Maybe we'll see some cheap third-party phones coming out in the near future? One can only hope!
P.S. I only posted this in here because I know development guys are probably the only ones who care as well as hoping Enyo isn't totally gone and kinda takes this as a challenge (as per his older thread)
http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/9/2623943/webos-being-open-sourced-says-hp
the top of the forum says: Fascinate Android Development
Moved this to general for now.
Ill work on it. That is if I do some research on it.
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the top of the forum says: Fascinate Android Development
Moved this to general for now.
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Actually it says Fascinate ANDROID development - this should be moved to the WebOS forum
Has anyone seen John Connor?
Hello
Developers please pay a little more attention towards the xperia pro. I've been owning it since end October an am a bit disappointed. Six months have passed and still not much custom ROMs for it. I see a lot of development going on for other new devices like the Xperia S but why not pro. Till now only three custom ROMs are available wbich is very less as compares even to the low end and legacy devices like htc chacha.
This is a humble request from all the pro owners.
PS: pro needs its own section
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I think your "PS" is more relevant than the main body of your post.
Developers are people like you and me who invest their own spare time into modding their devices. It is not up to you to demand that others make ROMs for the community, rather that WE form the community.
There are a few good Xperia Pro custom ROMs and mods about, but the problem is that they are very scattered, and the complete lack of organisation here and contradictory advice of where to discuss Xperia Pro (with randon willy-nilly thread closures), along with the intransigent attitude of some admins towards even considering the two minutes work required to create an Xperia Pro sub-section simply stunts any growth in the community.
The Xperia Pro has a significant market niche of being the only respectable GLOBAL QWERTY slider to have been released in the last year, and indeed on the market at the present time. Many people simply do not realise howw important a good QWERTY device is to some of us, and have probably not used one either to understand how superior many of us might feel that QWERTY devices are. There is no point in a 20-core 8 GB RAM phone with 7" screen if the text input is gimped (inaccurate and taking up your whole screen), and the device no longer fits in your pocket! The Xperia Pro gets this right and for those who have used it understand why it completely wallops other devices that might look better on paper.
Truely a good statement! You just took all the words in my mind!
I was trying to port MiUI to pro but my notebook fell into the swimming pool and the HDD wont work anymore. I need some time to collect money to buy another and start developing.
I need every pro owner get inspired by others and to try something.
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Cant the moderator create a sub forum for xperia pro development like ray,live with walkman n etc.?
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Well 1st and main reason probably they didn't put one is because of lack of development support? This is XDA Developers this forum was meant to be a forum for developers so I guess unless there's not much developers on a specific device then no sub forum for us.
And 2nd is we don't have that much userbase I guess it's not worth the kilobytes for each member here if there would only be a handful of threads on a subforum.
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Well 1st and main reason probably they didn't put one is because of lack of development support? This is XDA Developers this forum was meant to be a forum for developers so I guess unless there's not much developers on a specific device then no sub forum for us.
And 2nd is we don't have that much userbase I guess it's not worth the kilobytes for each member here if there would only be a handful of threads on a subforum.
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I think the main problem is that pro was focused towards businessmen and such peoplr. Developers generally dont fancy hw QWERTY
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I don't think so... If you go to maemo forums you'll see a userbase on which 3/4 are developers and 1/4 are regular users and all of those developers stick to that forum for 2 reasons. 1 All phones/tablets have HW Keyboard & 2 OS is linux. Sad that nokia decided to ditch those and go with windows phones. On which the main reason why I switched android.
Anyone who's interested to do something check this out. I'll start developing one I get a new notebook.
http://www.freeyourandroid.com/guide/porting-android
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Well 1st and main reason probably they didn't put one is because of lack of development support? This is XDA Developers this forum was meant to be a forum for developers so I guess unless there's not much developers on a specific device then no sub forum for us.
And 2nd is we don't have that much userbase I guess it's not worth the kilobytes for each member here if there would only be a handful of threads on a subforum.
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No, the main problem is ignorance of the admins towards how unique and great this phone is. Jjust look at the manner in which devices which the admins fall for the hype for such as the Samsung GSIII receive forums before they even exist or are known about. If the American admin were living in Europe where we have a QWERTY drought then they would have understood that many of us were eagerly waiting for months before the Xperia Pro release and would have created a forum without thought. "Dual core" etc. matters not one iota to many of us if it doesn't have proper QWERTY input.
It is a chicken-and-egg situation. I believe the developers are there in the community, merely that XDA (now regrettably the main place for SE development) is so disorganised that it makes it difficult to communicate.
It would be two minutes work to create a development sub-section in Neo, and actually less work for moderators to deal with the scattered Xperia Pro discussions as we have at present.
Frankly, I wish all Sony Ericsson users would get together, abandon XDA altogether, and return to websites like Esato, sense, TopSony as they did in the old days. At least then all devices would be appreciated and understood by those in charge.
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Weigh in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1095923&page=11
and here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1533272
to see what we are dealing with.
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No, the main problem is ignorance of the admins towards how unique and great this phone is. Jjust look at the manner in which devices which the admins fall for the hype for such as the Samsung GSIII receive forums before they even exist or are known about. If the American admin were living in Europe where we have a QWERTY drought then they would have understood that many of us were eagerly waiting for months before the Xperia Pro release and would have created a forum without thought. "Dual core" etc. matters not one iota to many of us if it doesn't have proper QWERTY input.
It is a chicken-and-egg situation. I believe the developers are there in the community, merely that XDA (now regrettably the main place for SE development) is so disorganised that it makes it difficult to communicate.
It would be two minutes work to create a development sub-section in Neo, and actually less work for moderators to deal with the scattered Xperia Pro discussions as we have at present.
Frankly, I wish all Sony Ericsson users would get together, abandon XDA altogether, and return to websites like Esato, sense, TopSony as they did in the old days. At least then all devices would be appreciated and understood by those in charge.
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Weigh in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1095923&page=11
and here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1533272
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Man this **** is not gonna help us. What we need to do is flood any one of the sections with xperia pro things like mods, ROMs, questions general discussions etc.
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Xperia pro is the best smartphone in its class. There's nothing compared to xperia pro when it comes to a physical keyboard.
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Pro didn't get advertised, that's why no one has it and no devs support it and now it's way too late to change that.
No one/dev will get a 1GHz single core device these days
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Flo95 said:
Pro didn't get advertised, that's why no one has it and no devs support it and now it's way too late to change that.
No one/dev will get a 1GHz single core device these days
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Everyone doesn't care just about 100Ghz processor with thousands of cores. Many people care about the usability of the device. Typing anything on a hardware keyboard is far less easy than on a touchscreen
I own a X10i, pro, xperia s and htc tytn ii. I use pro most of the time due to its usability.
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Man this **** is not gonna help us. What we need to do is flood any one of the sections with xperia pro things like mods, ROMs, questions general discussions etc.
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I agree that we should indeed do that, and am working on some mods too in my spare time...
(after all, it has already been accepted to allow Xperia Pro to be discussed, merely not exactly agreed properly WHERE.) All we are requesting is a little cleanup with a small single forum under Xperia Pro (or perhaps more pragmatically here under Arc given the volume of stuff already here).
Flo95 said:
Pro didn't get advertised, that's why no one has it and no devs support it and now it's way too late to change that.
No one/dev will get a 1GHz single core device these days
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Rather bold words there completely out of line with the 470+ votes and available ROMs!
Some of us don't require advertising to make informed decisions. Nor do we think that it is work spending €100 more for a device with less features (cough! Arc cough! Perhaps this thread would have been better posted over to the Neo section where there seem to be less of these perceptions)
Show us some loveeeeeeee!
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Will Neo V Roms works with Pro?....ATM all hardware are same a part from PRO'S keyboard...
@king-iyokan
account is disabled.. i also think that pro users should get there seperate forum..
and he should be the leader because he has a developer spirit..,:
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I agree that we should indeed do that, and am working on some mods too in my spare time...
(after all, it has already been accepted to allow Xperia Pro to be discussed, merely not exactly agreed properly WHERE.) All we are requesting is a little cleanup with a small single forum under Xperia Pro (or perhaps more pragmatically here under Arc given the volume of stuff already here).
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Will Neo V Roms works with Pro?....ATM all hardware are same a part from PRO'S keyboard...
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An interesting question. I think Neo V has different partition layouts, but I would have thought Arc and Neo ROMs could be made to work (though have read they will brick your device), except with some of the keyboard configuration left out. I think we should be pushing for an initiative to port Neo and Arc ROMs to Pro, or for example develop some sort of patch which would automate the process.
Hey there guys and girls!
I know its nothing new but the idea of having a off-topic thread really hits the beat.
Was getting bored and there were a lot of OTT to choose from...so i decided to create a new one.
I know its so awesome of me to call off-topic threads as OTT!
This OTT will be known as **Gabbar Singh** LoL
Gabbar Singh: Hello World!
Its time to say hi...
*P.S. your participation is seriously appreciated, cause am still getting bored*
Gabbar Singh!
Reserved
Gabbar Singh!
I was thinking of discussing this with you people.
The Idea: Using the free storage in the external memory card as additional RAM in our android machines
Verdict: Rate it on a scale of 10 and obviously your comments are anticipated.
Gabbar Singh!
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I was thinking of discussing this with you people.
The Idea: Using the free storage in the external memory card as additional RAM in our android machines
Verdict: Rate it on a scale of 10 and obviously your comments are anticipated.
Gabbar Singh!
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isnt that work almost just like swap? correct me if Im wrong
No idea about swapping !
Gabbar Singh!
How many are you excited for the new BB10 ?
Though some of features announced are quite common in android but I am quite excited to see if the new rim dna is up for competing against the droid.
Gabbar Singh!
Fuel-The-Droid said:
How many are you excited for the new BB10 ?
Though some of features announced are quite common in android but I am quite excited to see if the new rim dna is up for competing against the droid.
Gabbar Singh!
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Hey guys sorry to just barge in when I'm a HTC incredible s User. I'm just. Thinking Sony for my next phone. Do you recomend it? Also are they easy to unlock , root etc
Cheers
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james1196 said:
Hey guys sorry to just barge in when I'm a HTC incredible s User. I'm just. Thinking Sony for my next phone. Do you recomend it? Also are they easy to unlock , root etc
Cheers
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Yeah, sonyvdrvice is easy to unlock, there many root workarounds in the forums, and good roms, BUT beware of the slow update and they just abandon even the flagship phone a year before the current year...
But still... FXP Team is there to support whatever sony phone you'll buy...
My xperia arc s is running fxp cm9 which im using to reply to this thread... lol...!
soybi
soybi said:
Yeah, sonyvdrvice is easy to unlock, there many root workarounds in the forums, and good roms, BUT beware of the slow update and they just abandon even the flagship phone a year before the current year...
But still... FXP Team is there to support whatever sony phone you'll buy...
My xperia arc s is running fxp cm9 which im using to reply to this thread... lol...!
soybi
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Cheers for reply. Well my incS is still alive. Getting old but we are getting new stuff.
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Brain droppings.
Illustrator - Sent from my Arc S.
Hello everyone,
the moderating team assigned to your forum has decided to no longer allow any offtopic threads whether those were previously sanctioned by moderators or not.
We have come to this decision due to the fact that those threads offer absolutely nothing to the device specific forum or to development in general.
After all the name of the site is xda-developers.
If you feel the urge to engage in any offtopic discussion, the offtopic forum is always at your disposal.
As such, this thread is now closed.
Please understand that this decision was made only to streamline the forums and to enhance the user experience.
Thanks for your understanding and cooperation,
Tom
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