Is there not a way to poll the market from say, a web app? How do these other sites get their Market app data? I thought there would be some way to actually query the market from either Android or a web/server side so that we could essentially build a market app ourselves?
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:55 AM, theSmith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jan 20, 10:04 am, Gregg Reno <[email protected]> wrote: > > A while back, I released an app targeted for 1.6. I got reports that > > it wouldn't run under 2.0, so I created a 2.0 specific version and > > released it to the market as well. This was tested using only the > > emulator since I don't have a 2.0 phone. > > > > The problem is, my G1 phone is running 1.6, and can't search the > > market for my 2.0 version of the app. That means I can't read any > > user comments for the 2.0 version. Very frustrating! > > > > Any suggestions? Yet another reason why Google needs a web front end > > to the android market. > > > > And yes, I looked into building one version of the app that targets > > 1.6 but supports 2.0, but it wasn't possible due to the way accessing > > contacts was changed in 2.0. > > > > You could do this in one app if you have a minsdkversion of 1.6 and > target 2.x and just check it durring the actual execution of your > application if the version is 2.0 or higher, then call the appropriate > contact function for that version. Your app will run fine as long as > you don't call api functions that don't exist. > > -theSmith > > > > Thanks, > > -Gregg > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >
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