Thats good info Mark. Makes sense. But how then do we prevent our Android users from having left over crap that our app may store during its time? Short of a user never uninstalling it.. I don't think that's very good to users to just leave stuff around. Is there any way in code that we can keep a history/log of stuff the app uses.. that the uninstall process will clean up for you?
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote: > Kevin Duffey wrote: > > Is there now ability to have some code executed during install and > > uninstall? > > No. You can detect the first run of your application and treat it as > part of the "install", though. > > > I would have thought by now all OSs/frameworks would provide this sort > > of process. > > Back when Windows spyware would actually deign to register in Add/Remove > Programs, such apps would take advantage of the "code executed during > uninstall" process to try their level best to prevent the uninstall from > happening. This ranged from suggesting major system problems if the app > were to be uninstalled to forking processes that would reinstall it > after the uninstall completed. > > Based on past comments, I am under the impression that the core Android > team specifically does not allow apps to run code on install/uninstall > to avoid these sorts of situations. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to *Advanced* Android Development_ > Version 1.3 Available! > > -- > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >
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