As I understand it, applications that are signed with the same signature can share "private" data with each other. The details of this are still a bit fuzzy to me, but I suspect there are 3-4 practical ways to share the data.
On Sep 13, 1:26 pm, stanchat <[email protected]> wrote: > So if I understand you correctly one way would be to have the > additional levels as a separate app that exists on the Android > Market. The user buys this app/add-on and it gets delivered to their > handset. Is it possible to then have the main app access content > from app-addon? Is there any Security restrictions on this. What is > the architecture to do this? > > On Sep 13, 1:10 pm, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:54 PM, stanchat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Does the Android SDK have any built-in methods to deliver additional > > > content? > > > Nope. > > > > Does and third party provider offer any such service to deliver content? > > > Not that I'm aware of. > > > > If this is something that you must custom create yourself, what is the > > > best practice for creating? > > > I think a common practice is to published each "add-on" as a separate app > > that your main app checks for and loads from. > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Brion Emde <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'd guess that if you used HttpClient-related protocols running in an > > > Android Service and talking to a RESTful web application running on a > > > server > > > somewhere, you could pretty easily populate a ContentProvider- backed > > > database with additional information. > > > Micro-transactions are not allowed, AFAIK. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- 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
