We will release an application that will be pre installed into ROM's device. Today we wanted it to make a test to see how the upgrade will work.
We manually installed our application in system/app (because this is were the preloaded apps are installed) and at the same time we published the same application with same signing certificate and same package name with version code incremented (so it will behave as upgrade). And to my surprise the Android Market didn't display my app with "Update available" it displayed only "FREE", when I selected it it replaced my app and download the new app in directory data/app. However, Google Maps that is also preloaded present an update through the Android Market. After I installed the new version app from the Android Market if I removed both sames apps (one from system/app and the other from data/ app), if I install again the old version app in my system/app directory, the android market behaves as expected displaying "Update available". It looks like to be able to see the upgrade available the device needs to install the app from the android market mandatory. Is there a way we can avoid this, and just with a preloaded app to be able to see "Upgrade available" from the android market??? Are we missing something in our manifest?? Thanks -- 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
