I have an app that creates an sqllite database on first-use, if one doesn't already exist. Recently I released a new version of the app, and all of a sudden several users are complaining of erros that I didnt encounter in my testing. In my development I always installed using adb over usb, which in turn requires uninstall the older version first. So the database was always created anew on first-use of the new version. But I suspect my existing users are doing an in-place install on top of their old version, in which case the old db is incompatible with the new one.
So my questions are: - Does the Market app allow you to install a new version "on top of" an old one, without requiring an uninstall first (unlike adb)? - If an in-place upgrade is supported but the database is not dropped, the question arises what else is not deleted? Resources, preferences, manifest? I suspect there would be major havoc if these things werent completely removed & replaced by the new version. I am now contemplating adding a preference which will indicate to the app what version of my db it needs and use this on first-use to determine if I need to drop and recreate the database or just use the old db. Any thoughts? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
