I might be worth feeding it back to the PADGen guys. I expect they would be interested in supporting Android apps given Androids commitment to openness, and they'll probably help feed stuff back upstream to the ASP.
Al. blindfold wrote: > Thanks Al and Shane. > > Most convenient for developers would probably be if the PAD format got > extended to support Google Android and its APK files. Membership of > the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP) for access to forums > to advocate required changes is not free though ( > https://www.asp-shareware.org/newmember.asp ). > > My own provisional Android PAD file is at the URL > > http://phone.seeingwithsound.com/padfiles/android.xml > > but it is not yet a perfect match for Android apps because the PAD > format currently only supports established OS's like Microsoft > Windows, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Linux, Mac OS X, RIM, Palm etc. > Whatever the selected release file format, it has to be a format that > will be used by the vast majority of distribution sites. I understand > that adding PAD file support will imply some effort, although I think > ASP already pretty much packaged all the key elements for developers > and distribution site owners - minus any Android specific things, of > course. > > >> Any reason you're not using "Handheld/Mobile" in the OS field? >> > > I am using that in the above PAD file, along with "Java" and "Not > applicable" (not even sure what that means, but I mean it to indicate > that we do not have a perfect format fit yet). > > Regards, > > Peter > > > On Oct 14, 12:12 pm, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Peter, >> >> PAD support is on the list of things to do, but as you've mentioned it's >> not a trivial thing due to it's not android aware at the moment. What >> I'll probably do is be a bit lenient on the implementation and allow >> .apks for the download urls. >> >> Any reason you're not using "Handheld/Mobile" in the OS field?, I'm not >> familiar with PAD Gen, but the PAD spec supports it. >> >> Al. >> > > > > -- Al Sutton W: www.alsutton.com B: alsutton.wordpress.com T: twitter.com/alsutton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
