Hi, I think you would have to invite the app developer to upload their apps and consent to allowing users who may already have that app installed to download. That way the users would not be involved in any app uploads - just uploads of meta data about their free apps installed. Then user may just download apps again (with previous consent from the developer) if they needed to 'restore'. It would have to be a free service (I think) and you would need to get involved with the messy issues of multiple app versions and users updating to new phones with different capabilities. I think you may have some trouble with dev's - trusting you - thinking this is an easy way for you to accumulate apps (and stats) and sending them to unknown third parties. You may also need to be willing to share meta data about their specific apps with the developers.
Android market already does (most) this for you automatically. Begs the question of - what are your motivations ? Regards On Jan 21, 12:17 pm, "Eric Wong (hdmp4.com)" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 21, 9:48 am, String <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Wow, I'm really surprised at the reactions here. > > > Let me get this straight, if someone was offering to increase the user base > > of your free app, you'd turn them down and call them a pirate? > > > If someone were to set this up, I'd jump at the chance. Yes please! The > > major objection usually voiced to alternative markets is that they're not > > worth the effort, and here somebody else would be making that effort for > > you. Sounds like a win-win to me. > > Same here. I am thinking if there is a way to set this up without > infringing the law. > > > > > > > > > > > And as for the issue of losing control of your versions... news flash, you > > don't have that control anyway. Not unless you've rolled your own > > per-version expiration code, and I'm betting the vast majority of devs > > haven't. Otherwise, there's no way to stop anyone from archiving all the old > > versions they want. The only difference here is that the archive would be > > public. As if bittorrent isn't? > > > String -- 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.
