Kris, > you shouldn't do something like this, Yes, I meant "you shouldn't do something like this in Android, because installation management in Android is not done this way"
> look at all the other windows based apps > that did this? Nope, I didn't go that far :-) Interesting subject though :-) > he is writing an ever popular these days > Android security app I don't know, it's probable he is doing that. But installation management in the way stated in the question is not a common approach in the mobile world. Unless there is a very, very, very good reason for doing it, I wouldn't do this, but I would try to meet my business needs (whatever those needs are) by using an approach which is easily integrated in an Android app. But once again, we are discussing here without knowing what exactly the need is. ------------------------------------------------- Ali Chousein Weather-Buddy http://weatherbuddy.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/weather_buddy Geo-Filtered Assistant http://geo-filtered-assistant.blogspot.com https://marketplace.cisco.com/apphq/products/994 On Jan 4, 9:54 am, Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Ali Chousein <[email protected]> wrote: > > Normally developers work their a...s off to make their apps more > > popular and get more downloads+installs. You are trying to do > > otherwise. Maybe you should be questioning your business model to > > start with. I wouldn't stick with installation management techniques > > for Windows based PCs of the last century. > > Ali, > > Hmm. I'm not quite sure what you meant here, it's not that I think > you meant something incorrect, I think I just lost the context. Are > you saying: you shouldn't do something like this, look at all the > other windows based apps that did this? > > I am under the assumption that the OP wants to know because he is > writing an ever popular these days Android security app... > > 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
