[android-developers] Re: Programmatically check whether Market shows paid apps

2010-03-12 Thread Kieran
I'm on Optus in Australia. Optus is holding out waiting for a bigger cut from Google because they're greedy bastards. If you send a market intent everything seems to work but the user gets a "program can't be found" message. On Mar 2, 3:25 am, Bob Kerns wrote: > Thanks for raising this -- I hadn'

[android-developers] Re: Programmatically check whether Market shows paid apps

2010-03-01 Thread Bob Kerns
Thanks for raising this -- I hadn't considered the problem. My understanding is that in some places, it's the country that is the source of the restrictions (i.e. legal barriers to Google Checkout or something like that), while in other places, that barrier doesn't exist, but carriers impose their

[android-developers] Re: Programmatically check whether Market shows paid apps

2010-03-01 Thread westmeadboy
I checked that link and I don't understand why everyone is talking about the MCC/MNC when I thought that the sim country was the important thing? So, in the TelephonyManager, using getSimCountryIso() instead of getNetworkCountryIso(). The link talks about the Bob operator in Austria. Could it be

[android-developers] Re: Programmatically check whether Market shows paid apps

2010-03-01 Thread Peli
It is more complicated than that. In some countries, you can access paid or only non-paid apps depending on the provider you are currently using: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3852 In OI Notepad and OI Shopping List, we provide both links for extensions and themes (menu > sett