Is there a way to discover intents being handled by the apps hosted in the market ...
What i am looking for is, suppose an app starts an intent or a service and if that is not available, is there a possibility of package manager launching the android market in discover mode for that intent ? This will be very helpful when there are dependencies use case would be .. com.danraaka.myapp launches an intent implemented in com.someother.utils, however the device doesn't have com.someother.utils installed yet. -Dan On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > > Dan Raaka wrote: > > The use case is .. there are 2 apks > > com.danraaka.myapp1 + com.someother.utils > > > > but I want the user to download twice, but once. > > Not directly. > > You could create an APK file that has other APK files as assets. Then, > you could copy those APKs out to, say, the SD card, then fire an Intent > to get Android to install them. However: > > 1. You then take up 2x the space in the on-board flash, since the > packaged editions of the APKs will stay around as long as your main app > does. > > 2. You might have to deal with the possibility that the user has those > other APKs already installed from some other source. > > 3. You may not be authorized to distribute com.someother.utils in that > fashion. > > 4. Your app will be that much larger to download. > > 5. You'll need to advise the users as to why you are launching other > installers, since that process will not be transparent to the user. > > And so on. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Beginning Android_ from Apress Now Available! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
