The market is a program in itself and offers no api for web installing. Appbrain used a non documented functionality of the market app which probably was there already in preparation for android.com to do the install. If I was working on such a function in would of course change it so competitors could not use it anymore. On Feb 2, 2011 10:56 PM, "Mike Wolfson" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not sure about a specific API, but AppBrain could "push" apps from the > web to your phone before the most recent Market release (the one where they > updated the market app on the phone). After that, this functionality was > broken, and AppBrain said it was due to changes Google made to the market. > > Now, push installs from the web are available in the market released today. > > Here is the comment from AppBrain (directly from the listing for their app
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