That's how easy it would be to program. Have you also considered the increase in bandwidth requirements needed to support a decent resolution screen image? Even if you could get the screen shot into a 10k JPEG if you multiply that up by a few screenshots over all the G1s and ADP1s out there (and soon to be added to by the HTC-Magics) you'll start to see the problem goes beyond coding.
If you then add into that the user may have a weak cell signal and may browse many apps before downloading a single APK I hope you can see how adding screenshots could make the Market experience worse for a number of users as their cell bandwidth is taken up by screenshot downloads. Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ShrinkRay Sent: 29 March 2009 06:33 To: Android Discuss Subject: [android-discuss] Re: When will they add screenshots on market? I am both a Java web application developer AND an Android developer so YES I do have an idea of how technically easy it is. Yes, it would be techically easy to add screen shots, both at the developer console end and at the device end (assuming the Market application is a standard Android application). It took me all of 5 minutes to create a new activity with a WebView that contained the help page for my application. The same thing is all that would be required for the Android Marketplace App to show screen shots... a button/link opens this activity, which presumably has a close button and the web view is pointed at a properly sized page containing the screen shots for the application. Something more sophisticated could be developed, but at it's most basic it is easy to add. >From the web application side of things, Google already let us upload and store the APK file, so adding file uploading for one or more screen shots should be a no brainer, it's just a matter of then storing those images and adding code to show/link to them. The only issue I see is upgrading the Market application on the phone, which presumably would be part of a release of Android. Given this, I guess if Cupcake doesn't have screen shots, the Marketplace probably isn't getting them any time soon. On Mar 27, 1:47 pm, Eric Mill <[email protected]> wrote: > > Technically it's easy... any decent web developer could add this > > kind of functionality to an online marketplace application in a day. > > Adding the functionality to the in phone market application should > > be as simple as showing a thumbnailed version and clicking would pop > > up a sub activity letting the user browse the screenshots on the phone. > > Given that, I doubt it's a technical limitation. > > > I have a feeling this has more to do with Google not having to > > review/ approve Marketplace submissions for inappropriate/illegal > > content than any technical issue. > > Sorry, but you have no idea how technically easy it is or isn't. > Being a web developer has nothing to do with Android application > programming. And yes, it may also be a situation where they don't > want to have to screen everything people post, because that's the > whole point of the Market, is that Google is hands *off*. Stark > contrast to iron fist Apple. > > I'd love it if screenshots start appearing on the Market. Try > suggesting it constructively and in a way that emphasizes why it > should be a greater priority to the Android team than the bajillion > other things they're working on as they try to fundamentally alter the > mobile space, rather than railing about how they must just be lazy, > and you might get a better response. > > -- Eric > > > > > On Mar 24, 12:54 pm, Incognito <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hear hear > > >> On Mar 24, 2009, at 7:41 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Come on Google hardly rocket science? > > >> Screenshots = sales! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
