>I'm not even quite sure why it would be necessary. This ability would be great for any application that has a free version and a paid version. Often the free version wants to offer a button to open the market details page for the paid version. There's no good way to tell if the paid version is available to the user, however.
>you could query Cyrket Using Cyrket would give false positives. Paid apps, for example, are only visible to users in certain countries on certain carriers. The Cyrket method would claim all users can see them. It lists paid apps, so its scraper must be in a country and on a carrier that supports them. On Apr 26, 9:53 am, Sean Hodges <[email protected]> wrote: > If you don't mind a potential delay after publishing the other app, > then you could query Cyrket for its package name. For instance: > "http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.blau.android.richer/"; You will > get a 200 (success) response if the app is available on the market, or > a 404 (page not found) if not. Careful not to pound the Cyket server > with requests though, or you're likely to get blocked. > > I think a more sensible solution would be to handle this yourself, > publish the app with the event triggering a simple "Coming soon" > dialog, then publish another version with the Intent added as soon as > the other app is on the market. > > > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Ajay <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I wanted to check the availability of another app in Market from my > > app. Based on this I will have to give a message saying "Coming > > soon..." or show the other app in Market. I am using the following > > intent > > > new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("market://details? > > id=com.example.android.XXXX")); > > > Now, how can I catch the result which would say if the Market was able > > to find this package or not? > > > Thank you, > > Ajay > > > -- > > 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 > > -- > 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 > athttp://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 [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
