If the application is free this is a good choice, but if it is something that people paid for, then forcing them to pay again just because you change the package name would be really annoying, so for a paid version supporting both may be better.
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Ricardo Amaral <[email protected]>wrote: > No, Market doesn't allow that. Here's what you could do instead: > > Publish your app under the new company/package name and wait for it to be > live. Once that's done, publish an update to your older app. That update > should simply change the app into redirecting users to the new app on the > Market and politely apologize for the inconvenience and ask them to remove > the old app after installing the new one. You could also detect the old app > when running the new one and, if found, suggest the user to uninstall it. > > You need to be careful though with the user data though. You should > provide means for them to migrate that data from the old app to the new one > *BEFORE UNINSTALLING IT* or they'll lose everything. Maybe an > export/import procedure will do the job. If you do it right, it only takes > a few seconds for them to export all the data from the old app and import > it into the new one. > > -- > 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 > -- "I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." - Robert McCloskey -- 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
