It's not just user demand. It allows the OS to choose to put your app on SD in case it's internal space is filling up before the user tries to install your app.
Al. -- * Looking for Android Apps? - Try http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. 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 12 Jul 2010, at 16:33, TreKing wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) > <[email protected]> wrote: > If you can save them a couple megs by moving your app to SD card, they will > keep your app, otherwise it will be uninstalled. > > Right, but if you app is < 300K, as in my case, it's almost negligible and > not worth the effort, IMO. If the user needs space, something that small > probably won't be at the top of the uninstall list since it probably won't > make room for much else anyway. > > As for null checking, the specific instance for me was checking a > location provider that had been switched off by the user. Perhaps in > previous versions this resulting in a non-null value but in Froyo it > caused a crash. > > Ah, so it was an API change, not that nulls were handled differently. Good to > know. > > You can leave your old launcher icons in the drawable sub directory, > they will still be used by 1.5 apps. If you add the new resolution > drawable sub directories, along with new launcher icons, the 1.6+ > devices will recognize them and act accordingly. It only takes a few > minutes to update them, the new styles are easier to build then the > old, tilted design. Your choice though. > > Good point. =) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices > http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking > > -- > 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. -- 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.
