Does Google/Android have a "known issues" list?

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Does Google/Android have a "known issues" list?

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.

+4 A:

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

WarrenFaith 2010-09-01 13:29:05

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 2010-09-01 13:32:43

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 2010-09-01 13:56:43

+1 A:

yes we do have a bug tracker for android. You can access it here

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

Rahul 2010-09-01 13:30:07

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 2010-09-01 21:05:45

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 2010-09-01 21:08:11

@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 2010-09-03 07:53:23

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