If the Market does not provide version information at this point in time, it may at a later time. But currently it is not a big problem to download an XML file with the version information (using the VeeCheck protocol).
What *would* be good to serve alternative markets is to introduce intents to open alternative applications like SlideMe. Currently, the page you cited, mentions ACTION_VIEW together with something like market://search?q=hello to open a specific application. First thing to check is whether other applications are also allowed to catch the VIEW intent with scheme="market:". Then it would be easy for SlideMe to catch requests to the Market and redirect them to their own application, letting the user choose their favorite Market application for doing the updates. If this is not possible, we should introduce a new intent for alternative Markets. But let's first check whether the first possibility works... (should be done by someone with a device, as I currently don't have a device...) Peli On Oct 30, 10:46 pm, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:20 PM, friedger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Currently, I don't see any possibility to get the version number of an > > app on the Android Market. Does anybody know about one? > > Unfortunately, we are not allowed by the Android Market terms to load up our > application, so I can't investigate. I'm just going by the documentation at > the bottom:http://code.google.com/android/devel/sign-publish.html. If the > Market UID is not available, then Google needs to update their > documentation. > > Shane --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
