Many thanks for your response. So it sounds like an integrated paid app would require the user to purchase that app separately, e.g. if I have a $5 app in the market, someone pays to download that, and then when they start it up they get taken to the market page for any required app that isn't installed.
I guess what I was hoping was that maybe if my app required other paid apps that there would only be a single install, e.g. because my app requires another $5 paid app, that the price of my app in the store would automatically become $10, and the user would only need to click download once. >From your description it sounds like a dependent paid app would have to have its download requested by the user and be paid for separately. Many thanks again CHEERS> SAM On Feb 2, 6:06 pm, theSmith <[email protected]> wrote: > Depends on how the developer set up the integration. What they should > be doing is checking to see if the app in question is installed if not > launch its market page when they hit a button. If it is installed > then fire off the appropriate broadcast intent and VIOLA magical > integration. Of course you should be using a published intent like > the google ones (although they aren't all listed > here)http://developer.android.com/intl/de/guide/appendix/g-app-intents.html > If you don't your app may break if that intent changes. > > -theSmith > > On Feb 2, 8:16 pm, tansaku <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi There, > > > I am under the impression that android apps can require other apps to > > be installed in other to operate. The main example I know is the > > zxing barCode scanner app, which gets used by a number of other apps. > > The zxing barcode app is free, but I was wondering what would happen > > if it wasn't? > > > In particular, what would the user experience be like? How would they > > be notified, if at all, about the paid app requirement? > > > Many thanks in advance > > CHEERS> SAM > > -- 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
