On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Leigh McRae <[email protected] > wrote:
> I was wondering what people do to limit the phones that can purchase my app > on Android Market. > Why would you want to limit the number of devices that your apps runs on? OK, you can't test every single device, but that's not a good reason, IMO. > I image I can limit this to some extent by using the API levels in the > manifest but can I limit my app to just Droid/Milestone? > Not really, unless those are the only devices with the specific API level and screen resolution you target. > I have only tested the app on these phones so I can't be sure that it will > work on others. > There are known issues with the Milestone and choosing an OpenGL config, > among other issues, that I had to work around so it's not unreasonable that > other phones can have similar issues. > That's what the emulator is for. Granted, there will ALWAYS be issues once it's out in the wild, especially the way Android phone manufacturers have gotten carried away with custom builds, but those are the exceptions. You analytics tools like flurry or something to gather error reports for those cases. > Also how do you do dynamic licenses via http post? > This is a whole other can of worms. Search this group for "licensing" or "piracy" or something to see various threads on the subject. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Leigh McRae <[email protected] > wrote: > I am starting to wonder if my game is just expected to work on all devices. >From a user's perspective: yes. From a developer's perspective: we know better =) Good luck. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking -- 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
