On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:27 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I am designing an app the is a intended to be a regulated medical device. > The architecture we have setup is: > 1) An .apk that contains the regulated software and > 2) A second .apk that is not regulated (contains a more complex UI). > > Ideally we would like to be able to distribute these two apps together, but > for testing/quality purposes we need them to be separate binaries. > > Does anyone have suggestions on how we can couple these two apps to > distribute them together?
There is nothing stopping you from packaging an APK in another app's assets/, copying it to external storage, then launching the install process. However, you can't get rid of the copy in assets/, meaning that you take up more space on the device. And I forget all the rules about whether you can update the "inner" APK via the Play Store or if you will then have to do this yourself. > Is there a way to bundle two .apks together and > have them distributed together on Play? There is nothing specific about the Play Store that supports your model. > Is there a way to do this outside of the Play? See above. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in DC: http://marakana.com/training/android/ -- 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
