I haven't had any issues upgrading my app through the market. In fact I haven't had any issues at all. Once your app is on the market, you'll have an option to upgrade it. When you do upload your upgrade, anyone who has your app installed will get a notification automatically. If they go to select the upgrade notification in the toolbar it will go directly into the market app and display your app with upgrade available next to its name. The user simple selects it to update the app. Its all very simple and well designed. My only gripe is that the developer console is limited in terms how you can interface with it (ie more images, more room for description, search tags, more catagories, ect.)
Hope this helps! Stephen Lebed Developer "On The Level 3" On Apr 5, 3:03 pm, Eurig Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 5, 11:42 pm, "~ TreKing" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Eurig Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm intending to release my application through the Android Market and I > > > want to make sure I can deploy new releases of the app and the users will > > > be > > > able to be notified of these and upgrade to them as soon as they can. > > > This should happen automatically via the Android Market app. > > Even for Android 1.5? > > > > > > The Android documentation states that, appart from the android:versionCode > > > property, it is entirely up to the application to provide an upgrade > > > routine. > > > This is entirely optional and not necessary. In fact, I'd recommend you not > > waste your time with it and let people be notified by the Android Market app > > (when it work, it often doesn't) or discover it on their own. > > So I guess the market app for doing this is a bit unreliable then? > > > > > > What is the best strategy to achieve this? > > > I don't know about "best", but you could simple have a file on a server that > > had nothing more than a version code in it. On start up you app could check > > this file and see if the code in that file was greater than it's own current > > code. If so, it would notify the user that a new version was available and > > could take them to the market to get it. > > Ok. So once I notify the user that there is a new release available, > where or how do I link to the correct screen in the Market app for > them to download it? > > Thanks for your reply! > Eurig Jones -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
