Re: [android-beginners] Custom installation
Vladyslav Namashko wrote: Is there a possibility to create custom installation for android app with possibilities to: 1) include user agreement in the installation procedure No, not using the SDK. You will need to display the user agreement when the application is run and not let the user proceed in the application until they accept the agreement. 2) make one installation for two .apk packages, that should be installed successively in appropriate order. No, not using the SDK. An APK is an APK -- an APK is not two APKs. You can have an APK download another APK and ask to have it installed, but the user will then need to go through the screens to review and accept that second installation, and you will have two entries in the user's Manage Applications list. You could also have an APK have another APK inside of it (e.g., in assets/), but then you will be taking up a *lot* of extra on-board flash space, which will not make you popular. And, the user will still need to go through the screens to review and accept that second installation, and you will still have two entries in the user's Manage Applications list. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android 2.x Programming Books: http://commonsware.com/books -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
Re: [android-beginners] Custom installation
On Apr 2, 2010, at 7:19 AM, Mark Murphy wrote: Vladyslav Namashko wrote: 2) make one installation for two .apk packages, that should be installed successively in appropriate order. No, not using the SDK. An APK is an APK -- an APK is not two APKs. You can have an APK download another APK and ask to have it installed, but the user will then need to go through the screens to review and accept that second installation, and you will have two entries in the user's Manage Applications list. You could also have an APK have another APK inside of it (e.g., in assets/), but then you will be taking up a *lot* of extra on-board flash space, which will not make you popular. And, the user will still need to go through the screens to review and accept that second installation, and you will still have two entries in the user's Manage Applications list. Not that I'm sure of this, but couldn't there be an application that did the installation, and after installing the one or two APK's packaged within it, it could then delete itself? That would avoid the extra flash space usage issue. There would still be the issue of having to interact with the user for the later installation(s), but... - Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
Re: [android-beginners] Custom installation
Chris Ross wrote: Not that I'm sure of this, but couldn't there be an application that did the installation, and after installing the one or two APK's packaged within it, it could then delete itself? That would avoid the extra flash space usage issue. I am not aware of a way for an application to delete itself. You can remove yourself from the launcher by disabling that activity, but you're still installed. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _Beginning Android 2_ from Apress Now Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
