[android-developers] Several Apps and a widget

2011-10-06 Thread Brad Gies

I'm just wondering if anyone has any best practices advice for having a 
common widget for several apps. I'm working for a company that has several 
apps on the market (and many more to come). They all target the same age 
group, and most users of one app will potentially be interested in the other 
apps. We also have a blog and other content that might interest users of any 
of the apps. 

So what we want to do is to install a widget, either with the first app 
they download (and potentially as a separate widget) that will give the 
users the blog news etc. and an option to download any of the apps. 

What I'm wondering if whether we should just create a separate widget and 
check to see if it's installed and ask the user if they want to download it 
if it's not, or can we create a shared (among the apps) App Widget, and what 
are the best practices for this. 

As always, any help/opinions welcome :) 

Thanks,

Brad



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Re: [android-developers] Several Apps and a widget

2011-10-06 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Well, an app widget still needs to be installed as part of *some* package
(Market application from the user's view), so ...

... unless you have one mandatory (primary, hub type) application, I'd say,
package the widget as a separate application, have all the non-widget ones
check for it and prompt the user to install it ...

... and probably have the widget do the opposite - check for the other apps
and tell the user about them.
07.10.2011 1:34 пользователь Brad Gies rbg...@gmail.com написал:

 I'm just wondering if anyone has any best practices advice for having a
 common widget for several apps. I'm working for a company that has several

 apps on the market (and many more to come). They all target the same age
 group, and most users of one app will potentially be interested in the
other
 apps. We also have a blog and other content that might interest users of
any
 of the apps.

 So what we want to do is to install a widget, either with the first
app
 they download (and potentially as a separate widget) that will give the
 users the blog news etc. and an option to download any of the apps.

 What I'm wondering if whether we should just create a separate widget and
 check to see if it's installed and ask the user if they want to download
it
 if it's not, or can we create a shared (among the apps) App Widget, and
what
 are the best practices for this.

 As always, any help/opinions welcome :)

 Thanks,

 Brad



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