I'd love to get a definitive answer to the same question. I was askign something similar yesterday: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/283ee27e57b269f2/7895bccd96f352a9#7895bccd96f352a9
Experiment suggests that the Market won't let you upload two different APKs with the same package name as different apps, so I think the scenario you describe won't work. It would be very helpful to hear Google's take on this problem, since they have presumably thought out how the Market should work for light & full builds of the same app. R. On Feb 19, 12:13 pm, fry <bender...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am planning to have two versions of the same app available in the > market - let's say "App-Lite" and "App-Advanced". They both almost the > same core functionality, but App-Advanced has a bit more specific > features, than the App-Lite has. > > Now I am thinking what would be the strategy of deploying those two > apps in the market. > > The simple way is to provide different namespace in > AndroidManifest.xml for both apps, so "App-Lite" and "App-Advanced" > would show up as two completely different applications and could be > installed parallel on the same device. > > But I'm also thinking about another way of installing the App-Advanced > version - like an upgrade to the App-Lite which might be already > installed. To do this, I can just set the same namespace for both app > in AndroidManifest.xml, so after installing one app would replace the > other one - I can do this from adb command line, but I'm not sure how > android market would behave in this case. Will it show them as two > different apps, will it show them as two different versions of the > same app with the ability to upgrade from one version to another, or > it just will not allow to publish two apps with the same namespace? Is > this scenario doable with Android Market? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
