On Nov 25, 2:48 pm, webmonkey <[email protected]> wrote:

> By the way, the Market console now also shows
> the filters for your APK. And I learned that I forgot to add
>
> <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.location"
> android:required="false" />
>
> to my APK. Now the Market may filter it for devices that have no
> location based capabilities.

Wouldn't matter if you had. This <sarcasm>New and Improved</sarcasm>
Market appears to ignore the android:required="false" attribute; I
have it for all of my apps, yet they're still listing those features
as "This apk requests 4 features that will be used for Android Market
filtering".

The particular irony here is that I added this crap after the dev blog
post on Market Housekeeping (http://android-developers.blogspot.com/
2010/11/market-housekeeping-alert.html). So after specifically
directing us to insert these manifest elements, it now appears that
Google will filter out apps that are using it correctly. Classic.

I try not to be to hard on the Market "team". I really do. But during
a week like this, it's tough.

String

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