Good point. I was going to make an installer like apk that the user
would then delete but as you point out they won't get notified of
updates. Grrr. I don't really want to host it on my site as it could
get heavy. Maybe a hybrid approach that has the apk ask my site what
the latest versions are and notify the user that there is new content on
the market. I'm really afraid of this generating a ton of support emails.
On 10/18/2010 3:10 PM, Marcin Orlowski wrote:
Also isn't install to SD only 2.2?
it is.
Anyway I was considering making an app that was pretty much only
data.
Well, app quite can't have no code if you ask me. But APK can :)
When you run the app it will ask you to unpack all the data to
the SD.
Release .zip archive and write installation-steps-for-dummies so your
users would know where shall they put these files on SD card and how.
Or add download code to your app and install these files to SD card
yourself. You can also release APK with embeeded installation
code that would copy all files/resources/stuff to SD card, which looks
tempting especially you do not bother any bandwidth etc as it goes
from Market, but this will cause 'problems' as once users install data
and then uninstall your APK no updates will appear for them in Market.
Plus, they may complain on APK size anyway. I'd go for one of
former ideas. Or think or any other approach
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