Does the Android Market expose the URL location of the apps? Shane
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Shane Isbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi Travis, > > We have the same problem with needing to upgrade SAM itself, so we are in > need of this feature ourselves. If it's just > http://market.android.com/details?id=<appMarketUidString>, we could use > bundleId. What should be returned in the response? > > By the way, for the applications currently delivered through SAM, the user > will be notified that an update exists through the system notification. > > Thanks, > Shane > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:43 PM, tberthel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> I did this with my license server already, but none of the apk stores >> have a uri to the application. >> >> http://code.google.com/android/devel/sign-publish.html has: >> >> http://market.android.com/details?id=<appMarketUidString> or >> market://details?id=<appMarketUidString> >> >> but they don't work. The urls are dead. >> >> Currently, Google has not returned my email concerning this for a >> while now. >> >> Maybe Peli or Shane could give me a similar working URL for SlideMe. >> >> I actually need it now because, my next release is today sometime. >> >> On Nov 4, 7:41 am, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
