Application Visibility Issues

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Recently we became aware that some Android applications were not visible on the Android Market. While we were internally troubleshooting and qualifying the fix and communicating with our hardware partners, developers were trying hard to get our help through various technical support sites. Regrettably, we fell short of our own standard for customer support by not communicating the issue to our developers and how we were working to resolve it.

We’re pleased to say that the issue looks to be resolved with a patch, and to our best knowledge, all apps that were previously impacted are up and visible again. Again, apologies for the delay and inconvenience this created.

Application Stats on Android Market

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[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]

On the Android Market team, it’s been our goal to bring you improved ways of seeing and understanding the installation performance of your published applications. We know that this information is critical in helping you tune your development and marketing efforts. Today I’m pleased to let you know about an important new feature that we’ve added to Android Market called Application Statistics.

Application Statistics is a new type of dashboard in the Market Developer Console that gives you an overview of the installation performance of your apps. It provides charts and tables that summarize each app’s active installation trend over time, as well as its distribution across key dimensions such as Android platform versions, devices, user countries, and user languages. For additional context, the dashboard also shows the comparable aggregate distribution for all app installs from Android Market (numbering in the billions). You could use this data to observe how your app performs relative to the rest of Market or decide what to develop next.

To start with, we’ve seeded the application Statistics dashboards with data going back to December 22, 2010. Going forward, we’ll be updating the data daily.

We encourage you to check out these new dashboards and we hope they’ll give you new and useful insights into your apps’ installation performance. You can access the Statistics dashboards from the main Listings page in the Developer Console.

Watch for more announcements soon. We are continuing to work hard to deliver more reporting features to help you manage your products successfully on Android Market.

Android Application Error Reports

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[This post, the first in a series about new features in Android 2.2 ("Froyo"), is by Jacek Surazski, a Googler from our Krakow office. — Tim Bray]

The upcoming release of Android will include a new bug reporting feature for Market apps. Developers will receive crash and freeze reports from their users. The reports will be available when they log into their Android Market publisher account. No more blind debugging!

When an app freezes or stops responding, the user can send a bug report to the developer with a click of a button, right from their phone. The new button appears in the application error dialog; if the user chooses to click it, the Google Feedback client running on the device will analyze the offending app and compose a report with information needed to diagnose it. The system is set up with user privacy in mind — the app developer will not receive information which could identify the user in any way. The user can also preview all information that will be sent.

If users choose to do so, they may also send additional system information like device logs. Because there is a chance these may contain private information, they will not be passed on to the developer; they will be used by Google to track down bugs in the Android system itself.

On the receiving end, developers will get tools to diagnose, triage and fix bugs in their apps. A popular app can generate hundreds of thousands of reports. Google Feedback aggregates them into "bugs" - individual programming errors. Bugs are displayed to developers sorted by severity, measured as the rate at which reports for the bug are flowing in.

Clicking on a bug will display information such as stack traces, statistics about which type of hardware the bug occurred on and what versions of the app the user was running. In case of freezes, stack traces for all threads in the app will be displayed. This data should give developers a good idea how well their apps are faring in the wild.

Google is constantly working on improving and extending the feedback feature to provide developers with tools to improve the quality of their apps. The benefits should be felt by both developers and their users.

[I recommend watching the video of this feature's announcement in Vic Gundotra's Google I/O keynote on May 20th, mostly for the audience reaction. I hear that a high proportion of developers are making use of the Market's new "Bugs" tab. — Tim Bray]

LG Optimus, Android Phone with compact design and Integrated Android Market Application

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Browse around you with LG Optimus and discover all the interesting things you've never before cruising. This is LG Optimus, supported by Wikitude, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and all your favorite SNS. Life's good Pls Becomes everyday extraordinary.

Push E-mail Capability
Get access to your emails easily, anywhere, anytime with this smartphone. Push E-mail Provide always-on capability, in the which the new e-mail is actively transferred (pushed) as its arrived directly to your mobilephone.

Key Features
* Integrated Android Market Application
* Social Networking Service (SNS) Manager
* Push E-mail Capability
* Micro SD up to 32GB
* 3MP Camera
* Bluetooth
* FM Radio

Basic Specification
Phone Type Card Bar (Touch Screen)
Color 262K TFT 3.0' HVGA Touch (Rasitive)
QWERTY Keyboard Yes
RF Band EDGE, HSDPA 3.6, GSM 900/1800/1900/2100
OS Android OS
Dimension:LxWxD(mm) 109 x 54.5 x 12.9
Weight with Batt. Standard (g) 115.5
Standby Time, Max (hrs) 350 hours
Talk Time (hrs) 4.1
Display LCD TFT 3.0"
External LCD (Pixel) 350x480
Vibration Yes
SIM Toolkit Yes
Data/Fax Yes/No
Battery Capacity (mAh) Li-ion polymer 1500mAh
GPRS/EDGE (class) Yes

Messaging
SMS / EMS / MMS Yes/Yes/Yes
E-Mail Yes
Instant Messaging Yes
Predictive Text Input (T9) Yes

Internet
Wi-Fi Yes
Google Yes

Data Connectivity
USB Yes (2.0)
Micro USB Yes
Bluetooth Yes (2.1 + A2DP)

PIM
Alarm Yes

Advanced Features
3G Yes
Java (version) MIDP 2.0
MIDI (poly) •
Video Camera Yes
Built-In Game Yes
FM Radio Yes
Speaker Phone Yes
Built-In Camera Yes
Camera Resolution (MP) 3MP
Internal Memory 200MB
External Memory MicroSD up to 32 GB (not included)
MP3 Yes
Bluetooth Yes
Touch Screen Yes
Video Recording Yes
3.5 Audio Jack •
Key tone effect •
Ring Tone Yes
USB / PC Sync Yes/Yes
Vibration Yes