On Jul 22, 4:35 pm, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > We've (finally) rolled out an update which makes Pre-Release software > more easily accessible. All the pre-release apps pages have a big bold > notice saying it's a pre-release app and the download links have the > app level marked on the (i.e. Alpha, Beta, RC, etc..). It took a bit > longer than hoped because we've also been working on some under the > hood changes which took a while. > > Anyway, if you want to access the pre-release area you can use the Pre- > Release option at the top ofhttp://andappstore.com/or go directly to > it athttp://andappstore.com/AndroidApplications/prerelease/
Nice. Now you need to do some marketing about it ;) > > Al. > > -- > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://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. > > On Jul 17, 1:38 pm, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's an option, but, as you know, robots.txt tends to be a bit unreliable. > > > I'll see what we can do for the next server update. > > > Al. > > > -- > > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://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 Mark Murphy > > Sent: 17 July 2009 13:30 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Update on Android Developer Challenge 2 > > > Al Sutton wrote: > > > At the moment our view is that we want to protect against users coming to > > > AndAppStore from a search engine and ending up on a pre-release app > > > download page thinking it's a full application, hence the requirement for > > > a login. > > > > This is something we can change, so I'm opening the floor and would > > > appreciate the communities views. > > > Couldn't you control that, at least for friendly search engines, via > > robots.txt? Put the pre-release ones in a separate directory or > > something that gives you a unique pattern you can use to direct spiders > > away from them. > > > Just a thought -- I was reading about the latest Google/newspaper > > dust-up over robots.txt, so it's on my mind... > > > -- > > Mark Murphy (a Commons > > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, $35/Year --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
