[android-developers] Re: Install to sd and alarms

2010-09-26 Thread Doug
Best advise your users, through your dev page or a FAQ, why you can't allow app2sd when it has a home screen widget or some other constraint that prevents it. Ignorant one-star ratings are a fact of life, as far as I can tell. No need to get worked up about it, but do what you can to alleviate

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install to sd and alarms

2010-09-26 Thread Prakash Iyer
Would be nice to have this at the instant the user is experiencing the issue as opposed to a separate FAQ. On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Doug beafd...@gmail.com wrote: Best advise your users, through your dev page or a FAQ, why you can't allow app2sd when it has a home screen widget or some

[android-developers] Re: Install to sd and alarms

2010-09-25 Thread Rich
I'm curious as to why Android has to unmount the SD card at all? Was this a simple design choice or is it a hardware limitation with USB? Or something else entirely? On Sep 24, 7:50 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: It's not a marketing thing, it's a basic characteristic of the SD

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install to sd and alarms

2010-09-25 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Rich ricow...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious as to why Android has to unmount the SD card at all? Was this a simple design choice or is it a hardware limitation with USB? Or something else entirely? That's how USB mass storage works. The SD card is a FAT

[android-developers] Re: Install to sd and alarms

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Sinnott
On Sep 24, 9:35 pm, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:  Apps on SD is mostly intended for large applications that are fairly self-contained (read games and stuff like that). An app being small doesn't stop

[android-developers] Re: Install to sd and alarms

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Sinnott
Note that the packages in this list do not receive this broadcast. Possibly I'm misunderstanding something but I took this to mean my app will not receive the broadcast. On Sep 24, 9:28 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: See

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install to sd and alarms

2010-09-24 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Oh hm, true, it was actually implemented that way. That doesn't seem correct. On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Peter Sinnott psinn...@gmail.com wrote: Note that the packages in this list do not receive this broadcast. Possibly I'm misunderstanding something but I took this to mean my app

[android-developers] Re: Install to sd and alarms

2010-09-24 Thread Indicator Veritatis
Exactly why restricting the feature to large applications that are fairly self-contained is a major marketing blunder. On Sep 24, 2:07 pm, Peter Sinnott psinn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 24, 9:35 pm, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Dianne Hackborn

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install to sd and alarms

2010-09-24 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.comwrote: Exactly why restricting the feature to large applications that are fairly self-contained is a major marketing blunder. It's not a marketing thing, it's a basic characteristic of the SD card not being available all