On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) < [email protected]> wrote:
> My apps are < 200k but I had users demand they be installed on the SD > card. > Users demand a lot of things. Usually they're clinging to new buzzwords without any concept of what it actually entails. > The effort involved is negligible, it's a simple matter of adding the > statement to the manifest and recompiling with level 8. Twenty seconds of > effort. > Sure, twenty seconds to enable. Did you bother testing this new feature as well or are you just assuming everything "will just work"? The amount of time testing and, eventually, fixing issues that arise because of this is immeasurable. As with anything new added to Android, I'm very wary of any possible as-of-yet-unknown side-effects this may have. For example, add copy-protection and your app and it disappears from Market on some devices. Add bluetooth, and same problem on some devices. Use the MyLocationOverlay class and get a random exception thrown on only a small set of devices. Etc, etc. According to the docs Mark linked to regarding this feature, there are many things to consider when using this new feature - it's definitely not as simple as you make it out to be. With every change you make, regardless of how minute, given the matrix of android versions and phone models, you're increasing the chances your app will break in one form or another. And for what? So some uneducated users can save 200K? Screw that. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", as they say. IMHO, of course. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
