[android-beginners] Re: Creating a Lite and Pro version of an application

2009-10-06 Thread Justin Anderson
Jax, No worries... It sounds like you had done some homework before posting. And like I had said, if you had done some homework then you could ignore my little prodding. :) I thought of a couple other advantages to using my method: People will most likely try out the free version before gettin

[android-beginners] Re: Creating a Lite and Pro version of an application

2009-10-06 Thread jax
thanks Justin, I think I will follow this method. Sorry about not searching the forums properly. I was googling for a while but didn't find anything there. On Oct 6, 4:54 am, Justin Anderson wrote: > *> what's missing from the market is dependencies. * > > I wholeheartedly agree... > > *> i

[android-beginners] Re: Creating a Lite and Pro version of an application

2009-10-05 Thread Justin Anderson
*> what's missing from the market is dependencies. * I wholeheartedly agree... *> i often had the idea of publishing an "app" that is just a service for use by other apps ... but the fact that the user needs to manually download the service first sort of rules that out. *Yes and no. It is a lit

[android-beginners] Re: Creating a Lite and Pro version of an application

2009-10-05 Thread Justin Anderson
*> So a user would need to download both the free app, as well as the paid app (which unlocks features in the free app)?* Yes. I don't think that is that big of a deal... That is how the Documents To Go app by DataViz works. And that is an extremely successful app. Also, the paid app does virtu

[android-beginners] Re: Creating a Lite and Pro version of an application

2009-10-05 Thread Jeffrey Blattman
what's missing from the market is dependencies. i often had the idea of publishing an "app" that is just a service for use by other apps ... but the fact that the user needs to manually download the service first sort of rules that out. if we had dependencies, you could have an app core and th

[android-beginners] Re: Creating a Lite and Pro version of an application

2009-10-05 Thread Steve Oliver
So a user would need to download both the free app, as well as the paid app (which unlocks features in the free app)? Is there a way where a user could download just the paid app? On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Justin Anderson wrote: > The method is to have a main application and an application

[android-beginners] Re: Creating a Lite and Pro version of an application

2009-10-05 Thread Justin Anderson
The method is to have a main application and an application that acts a key to "unlock" functionality in the main app. You can't upload two products with the same package to the android market. Doing it the way I described in the other thread allows the main application to contain all the functio

[android-beginners] Re: Creating a Lite and Pro version of an application

2009-10-05 Thread Steve
I don't think the other thread explained how to do this without creating two package names. You would either have to re-name your package each time you published, or you would need two different projects, wouldn't you? Another approach is to try to pull out as much common functionality as you ca

[android-beginners] Re: Creating a Lite and Pro version of an application

2009-10-05 Thread Justin Anderson
I have already asked the same question, and later the solution on another thread. Just do a quick search for "code base" and you will find out how to do this. If you have done this already, then you can ignore this, but a lot of duplicate questions can be eliminated simply by searching for an ans