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I'm a newbie Android developer and I'm also in the market for a new phone, so I spent all last week doing side-by-side comparisons between various Verizon 'droids with my wife's iPhone. We found a lot of problems. One problem was on 2 different manufacturers' phones running 2.2, but it does NOT occur on my Android emulator in Eclipse running 2.2!

MY Question: Does Google have a searchable list of known issues (and workarounds and statuses) similar to Microsoft's Knowledge Base (the famous KB's) ?

N.B. I'm not asking for a list of bugs people have encountered - I can find that by Googling - Microsoft's KB articles are issues that the company has acknowledged and they often include workarounds or other useful information.

Kara
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Peter Nelson
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    In stack Overflow terms what is an "answer"? If I post a question and someone posts a response is that an "answer"? This question is a good example. I said I was looking for the equivalent of KB (where the company acknowledges the issue and has a workaround) articles, not just a bugs list. I don't have that yet but maybe there really is one and no one here knows about it or has responded yet. I'll start a new thread about this. – Peter Nelson Sep 01 '10 at 13:57
  • @Roger Pate - It was 0% when I made that comment. I consider that low. – Stephen Sep 02 '10 at 08:14
  • @Roger Pate - So, what's the solution? I disagree with his analysis that his questions did not have answers - almost all of them did. What I did not check was how long they had been alive - a good handful were created only over the last few days, so it's perhaps admissable that they haven't been checked yet. Should we be encouraging new SO users to just ask a question, take an answer and totally disregard the answerer? I'm not adverse to just having a "thank you comment" system, but he didnt even acknowledge his answerer's existence. – Stephen Sep 02 '10 at 10:24
  • I do apologise to the OP if he feels "dinged". But I feel that it's only polite to at least *acknowledge the existence* of the people who are trying to help you. In terms of sources, [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3614535/target-specific-emulators-for-eclipse-in-android) has a great answer as far as I can see, no tick, [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3531348/commercial-ideemulator-for-android) has a reasonable answer given the nature of the question, no tick,... – Stephen Sep 02 '10 at 10:27
  • ..., [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3514985/android-config-in-eclipse-sdk-preferences-wants-platforms-but-sdk-doesnt) had an answer which was completely ignored - no show it was even tried - in favour of the OP posting his own answer days later. Out of all of his questions, I found *one* that didn't have any decent answer, and maybe another one that had a half-good-half-bad answer. – Stephen Sep 02 '10 at 10:29
  • @Stephen: Instead of 3 long comments here, you'd have a better impact answering on the Meta question I linked; and I'd be happy to comment on your answer there. –  Sep 02 '10 at 10:36
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    @Roger Pate - That would indeed be the preferable solution. I've bookmarked this page and will return and extract my comments later once I'm home. I feel my above comments may have been overly harsh; I think I need some time to calm myself to the point where I can answer with what I think rather than what I feel. Thank you for your attitude. – Stephen Sep 02 '10 at 10:40

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Official bugtracker: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list

They mainly have work arounds, too. Famous one: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=979

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  • This is only the list of official bugs and issues in the android core code. If a manufacturer made an error in customizing android to their hardware and needs this won't be visible in the issue list. – Janusz Sep 01 '10 at 13:32
  • thats true, but he asked for the "google list" any other way is to search for a developer forum and search there for issues other devs have found... – WarrenFaith Sep 01 '10 at 13:56
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yes we do have a bug tracker for android. You can access it here

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list

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  • As I responded above to Warren, this doesn't seem to be equivalent to to Microsoft's KB articles. But Android has a much more open-sourcey kind of flavor so maybe it's as close as I'm gonna get. So I'll mark this as answered. – Peter Nelson Sep 01 '10 at 21:05
  • It won't let me mark them both as answered even though technically they're the same answer so I have to give it to Warren 'cause he did it first. But I clicked the up-arrow, whatever that means. StackOverflow is arcane. – Peter Nelson Sep 01 '10 at 21:08
  • @Peter Nelson - It's not arcane. It's merely a question/answer system. You ask a question, then hopefully you get a (good) answer. If you get an answer that perfectly answers your question, you give it the tick. If an answer doesn't perfectly answer it but brings up a good point, or is too late, it's quite common to upvote it. A ticked answer gives the answerer 15 points (and yourself a couple too - 2 iirc). An upvoted answer gives the answerer 10 points (but none to yourself). An important difference is that only the asker can mark an answer as ticked, but anyone can upvote it. – Stephen Sep 03 '10 at 07:53