kris, Thanks for your comments. By saying "just a 'social app discovery' service" you imply that app discovery is not important to you. How would you rate app discovery with respect to other developer concerns? My main point of my original post was to gauge interest. I don't mind having a technical debate but if I am trying to build something no one wants then the technical discussions are pointless.
As a mobile developer here are my major concerns: App discoverability Can’t do true A/B Testing on a mobile platform. I want the ability to push different versions of my app to a subset of my users and gauge their usage. Pre-baking multiple version of an app to be distributed is a pretty poor way to do A/B Testing in my opinion. Getting valuable metrics from mobile platforms is difficult. You have to know what your looking for before deployment and instrument your app accordingly which is usually done poorly as an after though. Kenneth On Dec 4, 1:52 pm, Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:49 PM, klewelling <[email protected]> wrote: > > My take-away from your comments is that a fundamental risk is > > security. I understand you have some technical reservations but that > > is for me to worry about:) You are of course correct that every APK > > executing in the host will have the same rights and abilities. Is your > > main concern that one or more of the APKs will take advantage of what > > is essentially privilege escalation? The risk of privilege escalation > > is obviously malware where an app sends SMS's and/or uploads private > > information. The challenge is to prevent or stop this kind of > > behavior. Is this analysis correct? > > I think Mark's comments mean this: > -- Are you prepared to reinvent the entire android security system just > for your app > -- That seems like a lot of work for something that is just a "social app > discovery" service > -- If you do it wrong you're inviting badness. > > kris -- 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
