Thanks for the quick and timely reply.

You have just saved me at least 4 hours of coding. :)

Cheers,
Fern

On Apr 8, 12:35 pm, "Dan Morrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Judges will be located around the world, so each will be using a separate
> computer, rather than sharing computers.  The emulator will be restarted
> with the -wipe-data option between applications, on every judge's computer.
> - Dan
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Fern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello Dan,
>
> > Could I have some clarification on how the -wipe-data will be used.
>
> > Does that mean that once the application is installed multiple judges
> > will reuse the same application? So the -wipe-data option is used only
> > to remove other submission apps.
>
> > Or,
>
> > Each judge will receive a newly minted app? So the -wipe-data option
> > is used after every judge and the app reinstalled, such that when the
> > next judge uses the submission he/she will be the first person to ever
> > use it.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Fern
>
> > On Apr 8, 11:08 am, "Dan Morrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi, Mark!
> > > Each application will be tested separately in a clean installation of
> > the
> > > emulator (i.e. using the -wipe-data option.)  Judges will not be able to
> > > install pre-requisite or dependency .apk files.
>
> > > You should definitely package your application (including all platform
> > > components) into a single .apk file, one for each submission.
>
> > > - Dan
>
> > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:26 AM, whitemice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > > >>...we will test all of the submissions to make sure that they
> > actually
> > > > run on the version of the emulator specified in the submission
> > > > application...<<
> > > > [The Android Developer Challenge Judging Process]
>
> > > > I have made an "application platform" and will be submitting a number
> > > > of separate entry's that require this to be previously installed on
> > > > the emulator in order to run.  I.e. install executable (a) then
> > > > install executable (b).
>
> > > > If you try and first install executable (b) it will show a "helpful"
> > > > error message saying you need to first download executable (a) from a
> > > > website.  I will include this file as part of the documentation ZIP,
> > > > as well as document the installation process the readme file.
>
> > > > Is it likely that some of my non-standalone applications be rejected
> > > > out of hand (i.e. by the poor guy who has to test each of the
> > > > thousands of buggy submissions)?
>
> > > > Regards
> > > > Mark- Hide quoted text -
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