Good idea about drive-mode, at least for the beta testing and initial release. I don't actually have an Android phone (yet), so was unaware of this feature. I'll take a look at what it takes to do that.
(Since I'm not really much of a cell phone person, I'm waiting for the Android equivalent of the iPod Touch or iPad, with WiFi networking only.) On Jul 27, 4:19 pm, greg <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you considered giving your users instructions on how to put their > Android phone in USB drive mode and writing a little PC application to > update/backup your application's data files on the SD card? This > might be a setup that the old time Palm users (such as myself :*) are > comfortable with. > > On Jul 27, 7:04 am, Doug Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Actually not that large by today's standards -- just in the low > > megabytes (<10 Mb I'd guess). The reason for the uncertainty is that > > it entirely depends on how much data the user has in their original > > database, which can vary widely. > > > I can understand the web server solution, and of course I already have > > my own business web server, but I was hoping to avoid having to build > > my own web-based solution. Such a solution would have to include user- > > specific login protection (name/password, etc.) since these files can > > contain private information and I'd have to make sure that the files > > would be fairly secure from unauthorized downloads and other hacking > > attempts. But I've done plenty of PHP scripting before... > > > On Jul 26, 7:46 pm, greg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Before you jump to the offered solutions, it might be helpful to > > >momentarilyback up and define what you mean by "rather large". For > > > example, are your data files 1 GBcompressed? -- 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
