[jira] [Commented] (CB-1156) Android app creation is broken in several ways!

["Olivier Louvignes (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Olivier Louvignes commented on CB-1156:
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Yes, using "Mountain Lion" $OSTYPE = 'darwin11' does not match & no replace is ever made.
The whole point of Cordova is to have a unified experienced for our smartphones. iOS has a splashScreen bundled in. So in my opinion, Android should too.
Many devs will start building their app with iOS & then port them to Android. In that case, you have a 100% chance of looking for it - and thus wasting a lot of time.

There is a pending pull request addressing most of theses issues :

https://github.com/apache/incubator-cordova-android/pull/38

But it looks like no one is ever reviewing theses pull requests (most of them have 0 comments...), that's sad as it discourages devs to contribute. 
                
> Android app creation is broken in several ways!
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CB-1156
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1156
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Android
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>            Reporter: Olivier Louvignes
>            Assignee: Anis Kadri
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: android
>
> The experience of starting a new Android app is just really bad.
> When we use the bin/create script there is a lot of things missing :
> -> SplashScreen?!
> I just can't understand why this is lacking. It is an obvious need & everyone has to waste time figuring out how to make it work by themselves
> -> MacOSX is broken
> Either using latest Lion or any version with Macports + GNUTools (replacing deprecated versions bundled with OSX for licensing issues - common for most developers).
> -> The XML is missing required keys (targetSDKpath) & having invalid stuff inside it (xLargeScreen).
> -> Most files are badly indented. Does not respect the Google guidelines for JAVA.
> I've done most of the fixing myself:
> You can find this (work in progress) there :
> - https://github.com/mgcrea/incubator-cordova-android/commits/patches-create
> I'm quite disappointed on how you release a 2.0 without taking the hour needed to clean this mess. Instead a few hundred people will encounter the same issues & have a bad idea on Cordova/Phonegap.

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