Hopefully in the next release we will have well-defined places for apps to put their own data in the SD card, which the system will clean up when they are uninstalled.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Kevin Duffey <andjar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > > > -- > 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 > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them.
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