My personal guess is that the Market will support autoupdate as soon as they start to allow for paid applications. But this is really just a guess, based on no information. (It would make sense to introduce this feature together with paid applications so that developers can quickly distribute critical bug fixes in commercial software, and it would not make sense to do an expensive OTA - over the air - installation before that).
Until then it has been recommended to take care of application updates by yourself. Since this means a lot of duplicated code among applications, we have written OI Update that can be easily used by any application developer and notifies the end user of new updates: http://www.openintents.org/en/node/136 While I can't answer your 4 questions for Google's Market, I can answer them for OI Update: 1. When? Right now :-) 2. How the users will be notified? Notification in the status bar. 3. How the reinstallation will occur? User is asked to accept new version or reject it. 4. Do we (the developers) have to do anything to support easier auto update? For OI Update, you have to include a meta tag in your application's Manifest and provide a small update info file somewhere on the web as explained at the link above. Let us know if you have any questions. Peli www.openintents.org On Nov 17, 4:24 pm, Max Binshtok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I am wondering if the Market is going to support some autoupdate > mechanism for the applications - we are required to version and sign > our apps - so it seems like they can do it, but is it going to be > done? > If yes then : > 1. When? > 2. How the users will be notified? > 3. How the reinstallation will occur? > 4. Do we (the developers) have to do anything to support easier auto > update? > > Thanks, > Max. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
