So is the market planned after the device launch? I've been thinking the market launches like a week before the device launch.
Hmm.. If not Oct 22, then when? On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:26 AM, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can already find in the SDK that you can install an application > from any web page by simply downloading an .apk file that has the MIME > type "application/vnd.android.package-archive" associated with it. > This will be opened by the system's Package Installer app, allowing > the user to see what it is and decide if they want to install it. > > You can likewise use the installer yourself by launching an Intent > pointing to local .apk file and supplying the same MIME type. > > This is a standard part of the platform, so yes it will be available > on the G1. > > Note that we do NOT allow applications to directly call the internal > API for installing packages, and thus bypassing the normal UI, for > security reasons: this effectively means that an application granted > permission to do this has been granted permission to do anything, > which is obviously pretty dangerous. (This is the same reason why we > only allow an application to inject key events into its own UI.) So > you will have to ultimately go through the system UI for installing a > package. > > As far as opening the app market it the developer community before the > first devices ship... I don't know what the exact plans for this are, > but I would honestly question the point. NOBODY should be uploading > an app that they haven't tested on real hardware. You would be crazy > to rely on just the emulator to determine if your application behaves > well. From that perspective, I think it would be a big mistake to > allow people to upload apps before they have access to hardware, since > it would encourage the uploading a lot of apps that are going to give > the actual users a poor experience. > > Our situation is very different from the iPhone, where phones were > being sold for almost a year before they even allowed third party > developers on them. We are releasing our first phone at the same time > that we are supporting third party developers, so I think it is to be > expected that initially there won't be a ton of applications on the > market, as developers will still need to do the final work to get them > running well on the phones. Android is just getting started... we > still won't have any phones actually being sold until next month! > > On Sep 24, 9:55 am, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:40 AM, jtaylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Maybe there's not many killer apps. :) > > > > It's hard to say at this point but if T-Mobile doesn't open it's App > Market > > to the general developer community before the October launch, I'm quiet > sure > > there won't be any killer apps. I'd move slideme for operation if I had > any > > indication that the G1 would allow third-party apps (like our sam > manager) > > to install other applications. At this point, I still don't know. > T-Mobile > > is also not providing me any info on how to do third-party billing. Still > > looking for that openness that everyone is talking about...but if the > > general community can't provision apps before launch, what's the point? > > Between Google and T-Mobile, this is really frustrating. > > > > Shane > > > -- take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://mobeegal.in - mobile search. redefined. +91 98403 48914 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
