I can understand where you're coming from. It annoys me to see an ad for an Android app, taking up valuable screen real estate, every time I visit the IMDB.
What would work for me as a user is a simple close box next to this advertisement, which would be remembered between visits (saved as a cookie in my phone's browser). -- Kostya 2011/1/15 TreKing <[email protected]> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:37 PM, ls02 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> User may land on my Web page in external Web browser in which case I have >> no control to inject any code from the app. >> > > Correct. Which is why this is where you display the generic market URL, > even if they're on their phones and have you app installed (which you can't > know, as we've established). > > >> Say you have a Web page that uses Flash. Do you want to mesage to >> your customers link to install Flash EVERY SINGLE TIME they visit your >> page instead of trying to dynamically discover if Flash is installed >> and directing customers to install Flash ONLY if it is not installed? >> Sounds trivial. >> > > It is trivial - if the application you're are trying to detect runs in the > same environment in which the user is running. In your example the Flash app > runs in the browser, which is where the Flash plug-in will be. In Android > it's fairly trivial to detect if another app is installed. However, trying > to dynamically discover what may or may not be running in a completely > different, unrelated environment without any "hooks" on both ends is not so > trivial. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- 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
