Ok, very interesting and useful. Thank you. Can you please tell me where I should look for more information about this and other interesting build switches?
On Jan 22, 6:05 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:39 PM, vol <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, if I specify LOCAL_CERTIFICATE := platform, would the apk be > > usable on any user's device? > > You really shouldn't be using the platform build system to create your own > applications that you are going to distribute separately from the platform. > That is what the SDK tools are for. > > If you do this, you are going to sign your app with a dummy certificate that > you don't own, which somebody else could use to fake your app (since it is > right out there in the public source tree), and which will probably expire > some time in the not far future and cause you all kinds of grief. (Actually > Market should hopefully prevent you from uploading an app signed with such a > cert.) > > > Or would it have to be a device running a > > version of android that I signed? Additionally, is it possible to > > perform this functionality via the eclipse plugin? I see options to > > set the debug keystore, but not much else. > > The SDK tools take care of all of this stuff for you, in the context of > writing a third party app. If you are distributing something separate from > a platform build shipped on a device, that is the way you should do it. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-framework" 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-framework?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
