One of my clients want me to program an android app which is for internal use. But it should be possible to rollout updates as easy as possible and it should be as save as possible.
1. There is one obvious way: Setting the "allow manual installation of apk-file"-checkbox. But setting this checkbox has the downside of opening additional security holes. Setting this checkbox with every update (the staff has to do this) and unsetting it afterwards is too complicated (IMO). 2. Using the Android Market as a delivery platform: Doing something like a "Torch-App" and putting inside a semi-hidden way of activating the rest of the application for the actual purpose. Positive: delivery of updates is completely free Negative: it could be against the license agreement (I wasn't able to find paragraphs which are prohibiting this). Other people can download this app. 3. Is it possible to install the APK-File manually(see number 1) and replacing parts of the installation with an own auto-updater-app? I already implemented similar things for Windows Mobile and Symbian. But on this platforms it is possible to sign dlls and exe files one by one and it is possible to directly replace files in the "application- home" directory. 4. The most complicated way is to implement an own Appstore. I read it several times in the past - it is possible to implement an own appstore on Android - but I can't find any documentation on this topic. Thank you in advance for helping me. Best regards, Thomas -- 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
