[android-developers] Re: Multiple Apps and Content Providers, How to ?

2011-11-17 Thread swebb99
Ah interesting video thanks for pointing it out to me. It looks like I simply need to use the none server managed purchase mechanism for what I need. The first part of the video was worth watching also because I hadn't even considered security on my app. I think I will spend some time

[android-developers] Re: Multiple Apps and Content Providers, How to ?

2011-11-16 Thread swebb99
Thanks for the reply again Mark, very useful information. The in-app purchasing maybe the way for me to go so I'll have a read around that subject. In theory I could create the structure of the app with several modules which could be purchased as add on's. I could put in the app store a version of

[android-developers] Re: Multiple Apps and Content Providers, How to ?

2011-11-16 Thread swebb99
Right I've had a read around in-app purchasing and I think its the way to go. My thinking is I release the initial version of the code probably without in-app code, just get it out there. Then I do an update when ready which add in-app purchasing. The extra logic to be bought will already be in

[android-developers] Re: Multiple Apps and Content Providers, How to ?

2011-11-16 Thread BelvCompSvs
there are some other things you may not have thought about yet go to the developer doomawhichythingy at http://developer.android.com/videos/index.html#v=WGIU2JX1U5Y and run the video titled Evading Pirates and Stopping Vampires about half of which I was already working on and had re-coding of

[android-developers] Re: Multiple Apps and Content Providers, How to ?

2011-11-15 Thread swebb99
On that basis anything that needed contacts should be in the same app! On Nov 15, 2:45 pm, Kristopher Micinski krismicin...@gmail.com wrote: The typical answer is that if you have something like this then you shouldn't have separate apps in the first place. kris On Tue, Nov 15, 2011

Re: [android-developers] Re: Multiple Apps and Content Providers, How to ?

2011-11-15 Thread Mark Murphy
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:45 PM, swebb99 sweb...@gmail.com wrote: On that basis anything that needed contacts should be in the same app! Contacts is part of the operating system. Your apps are not, unless you roll your own firmware and put your apps in it. Outside of putting content on

[android-developers] Re: Multiple Apps and Content Providers, How to ?

2011-11-15 Thread swebb99
Thanks for the reply Mark. As you say contacts is part of the eco system and hence I can see the benefit of a provider. But I'm failing to see how providers created by normals developers like myself are actually that useful unless you have one app that provides the provider and then the others

Re: [android-developers] Re: Multiple Apps and Content Providers, How to ?

2011-11-15 Thread Mark Murphy
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:24 PM, swebb99 sweb...@gmail.com wrote: the problem with this is you need to make sure that the customer always purchases the app with the provider first!!! Correct. Content providers for inter-app data sharing can work well when there is a clear hierarchy (e.g., app