[android-developers] android market merchant accounts not available in europe
Merchant accounts is limited to only a handful of countries at the moment. That means that no one else in the world can sell their apps until Google decides to push things forward. I made the mistake to upload the free Lite version of our app on the market, and now users are asking when the full (paid) version will be available. I was wondering, what do you developers do in the case where google checkout is not available in your country? are there any alternatives to sell your apps? i believe I 'm not the only one who has this question. Thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Creating merchant accounts to sell apps - Countries not supported
When i tried to create a merchant account in order to sell my app, my country (Greece) is not available in the list. Does this mean only 7 countries are supported? Thanks, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Google's attitude towards Android.
Actually the new iPhone OS supports all these features. Why isn't Android ahead? On Jun 16, 5:26 am, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 15, 3:22 pm, zero_star gkas...@gmail.com wrote: According to all reports from the recent Google IO event, Google now actively advocates HTML5 Standards, and rightly so, since for us developers there is no better and more easily portable platform to develop for mobile devices. However, despite that, Android does not have a notion of 'first class' web applications. That must be years away, and I'm not looking at the technical availability of optimized browsers that incorporate Gears, HTML5 and other features that are ahead. Even with optimizations towards JS encoding and execution or the goodness of HTML 5, mobile web apps are at a disadvantage over native apps. There's a variety of reasons that I can see: - Native apps can be optimized to just sip data via JSON or XML, while encoded JS and HTML will always come with a overhead penalty. That shows, in particular, well ironically, in mobile use with spotty coverage and capacity. In addition, native apps have all execution code available a priori, which, sans caveats, allows the management of the user experience when connectivity is poor. I suppose we shall see how caching and code splitting will work out... it sure is a burden on the dev team, because it adds a layer of complexity. In the extreme, your dev team might end up succumbing to the challenges of code management, having to start over by developing native apps for the various platforms of interest after all. - There's issues that flat out don't exist in the wired web. In most cases you can optimize a native app to live comfortably on Edge or even GPRS. These old dogs just happen to continue to be operated on frequency bands that have better signal penetration than 3G. Which means, on Edge, users of your optimized native app can actually interact with your product in a meaningful way, while mobile web app users leave the room to hunt for 3G, or switch to WiFi (What was the SSID again?). That gets old real fast. To aggravate the issue - wireless broadband requires a solid build out of the fixed side infrastructure by the carrier. A lot of ground capacity is needed to deliver that broadband experience, and that may or not be the case in the area where your users live for the carriers that they chose. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Google's attitude towards Android.
According to all reports from the recent Google IO event, Google now actively advocates HTML5 Standards, and rightly so, since for us developers there is no better and more easily portable platform to develop for mobile devices. However, despite that, Android does not have a notion of 'first class' web applications. For example: - There is no way to add an icon to the home screen that, when clicked will launch a web-based application on a WebView - The WebView does not support Gears at all - Google has not implemented HTML5 offline database access or geolocation API, and cookies are not accessible from WebView. - There is no way to publish a mobile website or web-based application on the Android Market. I am wondering: is Google planning to upgrade support for web applications to make them first class citizens in Android. More specifically, we have launched our mobile website which utilizes the HTML5 geolocation capabilities. Although our service could be useful to android users, we have no way to reach them. We tried to encapsulate the app in a WebView UI using the phonegap framework, but it fails in that Gears is not supported in the WebView, so we ended up creating an app that is a simple link to our external website. This is pretty ugly and, rightfully, we got terrible reviews. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Does the android 1.5 browser support navigator.geolocation?
Hi guys, Can anyone tell me whether the android browser in 1.5 supports the geolocation W3C standard? I tried loading some demo pages on the emulator and it doesn't seem to work. As I don't have an actual phone, i 'm curious whether it works. Thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Displaying google maps on android browser
Hello, Our mobile website uses google (web) maps so that users can drag and click on. As I don't have an HTC device around, I tried loading it on the android emulator browser. I noticed however, that when you tap or drag over the map, the browser does not send the events to the map, instead it just scrolls the page. Does this thing also happen to real devices? I 've checked that GMap2.draggingEnabled()==true Any help would be appreciated. Thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
