My Amazon sales were about 1/30 of my Android Market sales. That may sounds like it's bad, but considering that its US only and probably less than 3% of the devices out there have the Amazon AppMarket installed on them, it's not bad.
On Jun 5, 12:32 pm, Spooky <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 4, 11:32 am, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Android Market coming pre-installed on most devices, Amazon's > > app having to be manually installed, and sideloading disabled > > on AT&T devices are also major factors. > > Just FYI, if by "sideloading" (a term I haven't heard before), > you mean loading from outside of the Android Market, there is a > fix for that bug (I know...but as far as I'M concerned, it's a > bug, as is the unwanted screen lock that keeps popping back in > despite the no-lock widget, and the utterly useless Global > Unplug, which I end up destroying every time my phone reboots). > Sorry...back to the topic now.... > > I'm using this work-around to test the app I'm working on, since > my PC isn't up to the task of running the virtual device. > > First Settings-->Applications-->Development-->USB Debugging must > be checked. > > Second, use adb to install the app: from the command line, run > it as: > > (23:13) $ ./adb install appname.apk > > (I don't actually run it this way...I have a Zsh alias set up, so for > me, > that would be: "adbinstall appname.apk" which, for a bit of added > security (habit) uses its full path, and adds a -r to replace the > existing > copy.) > > For those who already know this, sorry about the redundant post, > but I got the impression that this may not be as widely-known as > I thought. > > Obviously, if you load and run a 3rd-party app that manages to > get some authority on the system and trashes it, you're on your > own.... > > Later, > --jim > > -- > 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | DMR: So fsck was originally called > [email protected] | something else. > < Running FreeBSD 7.0 > | Q: What was it called? > ICBM / Hurricane: | DMR: Well, the second letter was different. > 30.44406N 86.59909W | -- Dennis M. Ritchie, Usenix, June 1998. -- 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
