Android device specific errors

Question

I am developing an Android application and run into problems during QA. The application behaves strangely under certain conditions only on certain specific devices.

For example, on HTC Hero, when I call Google Maps to display a specific location from my application, pressing BACK forces me to return to two screens instead of one. On every other device I tested on, it works great.

There are more problems like this that I encounter. Is there any database that has device related errors. I tried to walk, but no useful result. Any ideas?

Answer 1

HTC seems to be a bad boy. I cannot make a list, but I can help you:

• On the HTC flash drive, the layout is large, not xlarge, which makes all my tablets optimized layout invisible, and they got the phone version.

• On HTC Desire and Tattoo (and, of course, for many other devices) the intention to create shortcuts does not work.

• On some devices Acer, Motorola, Samsung MyLocationOverlay in the Google Maps API does not work. you need to rewrite it: http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Android/App/seattle-bus-bot/com/joulespersecond/seattlebusbot/MyFixedLocationOverlay.java.java-doc.htm

I would love to hear more of these stories and perhaps share some workarounds.

Answer 2

I think the closest thing you will find is Here (official tracker for Android). A search that can help you when you come across these error errors.

With that said, I've heard a lot of scary stories about the HTC Sense user interface, which makes apps behave erratically (although I can't confirm this since I have never used HTC device).

Answer 3

On HTC Mini One, if you create your own theme and try to change an ActionBarTabStyle based on an API call, you cannot ... LayerDrawable.setDrawableByLayerId refuses to work even on this phone (Sense 5.0)