It would be nice if the Android Market Place allowed us to have dependent applications. I could then put my shared data into a seperate content provider application. Then on the Market (or even better in my manifest) I could do:
My-paid-app depends on my-content-provider-app My-free-app depends on my-content-provider-app Where my-content-provider-app is a seperate APK and does all the database access. Selecting My-xxxx-app would download and install both the applicaton and the content provider. If the content-provider-app was already installed (via the free-app) it would be updated (if required) but as you know just updating an app preserves the existing data. I feel that shared content providers (which are a great feature of Android) will not be much use until something like the above is implemented. I can dream .... -- RichardC On Oct 27, 4:47 pm, skyhigh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 27, 4:33 am, RichardC <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Use the paid-for app unlocks the free-app approach then you don't need > > to share thedatabase. > > Richard I read the discussion on another topic in this forum > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > titled > ALL DEVELOPERS PIRATED APPLICATION ALL OVER! and it raised some > concerns with me about making the free version include my full > functionality and have the ability to enable the full functionality > with a code check. > > The comments in this pirated thread seemed to indicate that many of > those that pirate and post cracked versions of applications don't > crack pay versions nearly as often because they don't want to pay to > download the pay version in the first place. > > I don't know the best answer here, but the comments posted in the > pirated thread concerned me. This is the reason that I have been > continuing down my original path of creating two separate > applications. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
