[G Tablet Android Development] TEK112:
You seem excited... I understand your points, but you must understand that this is a developer forum. It is all about the latest and greatest. None of these are true releases, they are Alphas, Betas and RCs. If you wanted something as close to 100% bullet proof as you can, you would stick with stock. If you act on what you're saying, the argument would have been why create a GB ROM when Froyo is fine? Or why create a Froyo ROM since Cupcake is fine?

All of us that have ever loaded a ROM know that random resets, lost 3G, iffy wifi and losing graphic textures are all part of the process. However, if a project is never started and feedback is never given through testers how do you expect growth?

Honeycomb development has been moved to slatedroid.com, for the most part. There are many threads here, but none as comprehensive as over there. There were some initial concerns with the mods here and putting out new code that caused mass brickage.

If you run any of the recent HC releases, you will see game textures and shaders (quadrant graphics test, contract killer, monster madness, etc) that were previously absent in other releases. That indicates hardware acceleration is enabled. However, as I mentioned previously, there is no full support. Things get jittery, memory dumps, crashes and soft reboots. Hardware acceleration is rather old news. In fact, just check google and read the headers of most of these results:

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&...gc.r_pw.&fp=733c9000aadb1943&biw=1280&bih=939

The appeal of HC over Froyo or GB is that you have a real tablet interface. Things are not low scale upsized resolution images. I don't have to turn my device 90 degrees to swipe to unlock, or worry about the silly power button turning the tablet on and off 4 times before I can unlock it. When I load applications and productivity apps, I can still see the task bar at the bottom. It allows easy navigation and better fluidity for working. Widgets are now comprehensive with better functionality and resolution. It is not about turning it into a netbook, even though Ubuntu is capable of running full bore on the G-TAB. The point is something better. If you have run the latest versions of HC, you would agree it is better than GB and Froyo as far as user experience, GUI and fluidity. The only real holdbacks now is flash (which I explained in my previous post), a broken camera and no ability to watch true HD videos. However, for my purposes as an applications manager for a hospital, I am able to use logmein and citrix without a hitch, create custom reports and work on databases from anywhere. With a bootup time less than that of a netbook (even my tricked out Aspire 1 running Xubuntu with 2GB RAM and a Crucial SSD) or W7 tablet.

We all have our own opinions, but I think you argument (while well received) is not one that holds water in a development community.

edit:

Check out the latest and greatest:

http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/189...t2/page__p__189419__fromsearch__1#entry189419

Roebeet is taking a break and wants others to pick up where he left off. He is not out of the game, just sidelining for a bit.

Here is a link to Android 1.2 Development for the G-TAB

http://www.slatedroid.com/forum/199-viewsonic-g-tablet-12-rom-development/