Friendly suggestion, read up on the lawsuits against Microsoft for not releasing API details (here's a recent one http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/microsoft_goes_open/)
It sounds like Android, at the moment, is heading for the same path. Al. hackbod wrote: > On Oct 22, 12:18 am, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Although the Android doesn't force users to use Marketplace can you why, >> from a usability and functionality perspective, Marketplace already has >> an unfair advantage that can only be levelled by using non-public APIs, >> and hence why all the time bundled apps such as Marketplace uses >> non-public APIs other apps will do so? >> > > In the realm of app installation, security is really important and > tricky. At this point, we think it is too dangerous to give a third > party application blanket access to install applications without the > user being involved. That may change in the future, but for now that > is the way it is. Yes, it means the Android Market app as a bundled > part of the system can do a little different UI flow than ones that > aren't bundled that way. Sorry, that's just how it is for now. > > For uninstalling apps without the user's intervention, this is > something that would be a little less scary to allow, but we didn't > have time to look into this for 1.0. > > Oh and fwiw, what you are talking about here has nothing to do with > private APIs. Yes, these APIs are not in the SDK, but even if they > were, you couldn't use them because they are protected by a permission > that you can only have granted to you if you are signed with the same > certificate as the core platform code. > > > > -- Al Sutton W: www.alsutton.com B: alsutton.wordpress.com T: twitter.com/alsutton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
