I agree that this approach isn't exactly clean, but I would argue that because there is currently no support for in-app upgrades in Android, that devs are forced to do something that is less than ideal. In my opinion, the proliferation of Free App + Paid app pairs in the marketplace is a bigger cluster* than if we had had some way of doing in-app upgrades from the beginning. People are just doing what they have to do to work around an obvious shortcoming.
On Dec 3, 11:08 am, Piotr <[email protected]> wrote: > No offence, but ideas like this, are destroying platform consistency, > resulting in software, that is working BAD, giving bad experience to > users, and hanging out the phone at least. > > I hate that style of coding. > > Focus rather on giving great user experience than making user's live > harder. > > To the point. Think out a better idea. Think how to create your > upgrade in any other way, without any platform hacks. > > It is possible. > > On 3 Gru, 18:51, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Here's my use case that will hopefully explain why I even want to do > > this: > > > 1) I have a free app > > 2) I wrote another app that serves strictly as a token which the user > > can purchase to "upgrade" features in the free app > > 3) When they purchase the upgrade app, I want to give them the > > impression they actually downloaded it and it installed correctly. > > Simply having it install without any confirmation will, I assure you, > > result in countless emails to me. > > 4) I really don't want to have to show the "upgrade" app in their app > > tray since they now would have two icons. > > > So, with all that's been discussed, let me ask a different question. > > Is there a way to programmatically remove an icon from the tray after > > the activity has been shown and still keep the app installed on the > > phone? > > > - Mike > > > On Dec 3, 10:44 am, "Mark Murphy" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Thanks. That works. > > > > > BUT... I should have clarified myself a little bit. Not only do I > > > > want to prevent the icon from getting placed in the app tray, but I > > > > still need the main activity to run and display a message to the > > > > user. > > > > Fortunately, that's not possible. The only way the user will be able to > > > launch your application is if you put an icon in the launcher. > > > > > I suppose I can write my own class that extends Application and > > > > create an Intent that shows this Activity in onCreate? > > > > Except that your Application will never run unless it is launched, and the > > > first launch has to be by the user. > > > > -- > > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > > > Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html -- 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
