there are design issues with installing apps to sd cards. first is offering a format/partitioning utility to create available space. second would be figureing out which apps to install where. if someone were to release 2 versions of an app like old shareware you would have pirate issues.
eg. app_demo.apk app_full.apk user installs app_full.apk to sdcard and then copies it to the internet. i'm not saying this way is pirate proof, but life is about keeping the honest people honest look at calif gun laws... anyways, its the same reason we have to "root" our phones, is because google cannot be held responcible for giving us this control. same reason game manufactures use anticopy protection schemes that have already been broken. it is a way for google to protect themselves. if you "brick" your phone "rooting" it, your fault. you "brick" your phone following an official google tutorial, it becomes googles fault for telling you from a business standpoint, it makes sence. i garrenty google thought about sdcards for installing apps. they were trying to squeeze every last bit of memory out of the phone. On Feb 13, 4:41 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope you guys can implement that in the next android updates. It is > really cool that all the applications are free, but the G1 phone > doesn't have a lot of on board memory, so please implement the feature > to install applications on the SD Card. That is the only comment I > have. A lot of people are Jailbreaking their phones just so they can > get to that feature. Please consider it. Thank you. > One more thing-If you can make it possible to save the browser cache > data on the SD card as well will be awesome. > Thank you again! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
