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Easter eggs

android · sdk · easter eggs

September 4, 2008 at 13:10

Easter eggs

    Everyone knows that developers are not without a sense of humor.
    1. There are many gravitational constants in the SDK documentation. But two of them are out of this world
    float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I 3.5303614E-7 // Star Wars forever
    float GRAVITY_THE_ISLAND 4.815162 // damn number from the LOST
    2 series . If you use the camera function, the SDK will return the Bill Lumbergh photo from Office Space
    3. In release notes written for version 1.0 - “We are sorry, but we are forced to inform the developers that the Android 1.0 platform does not support 3.5 inch floppy disks”
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