Re: [android-developers] Re: How Android Market's OTA works?

2011-08-02 Thread Jose_GD
That explains why my Eclair phone receives the app installation tickle from the Market webapp. Dianne, please correct me if I'm wrong: 1) The foundation for C2DM was always present in Android, Google apps used the mechanism since the beginning, and was made available to developers since Froyo

[android-developers] Re: How Android Market's OTA works?

2011-08-01 Thread Paul Turchenko
It's push. Android market (vending process on your device) keeps passive connection with Android Market server. Same way Gmail app works. This is why email delivery is instant. On Aug 1, 7:23 pm, Jose_GD jose.gonzale...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering how the Android Market's web app

Re: [android-developers] Re: How Android Market's OTA works?

2011-08-01 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Paul Turchenko paul.turche...@gmail.com wrote: It's push. Android market (vending process on your device) keeps passive connection with Android Market server. Same way Gmail app works. This is why email delivery is instant. Interesting. Do you have any more

Re: [android-developers] Re: How Android Market's OTA works?

2011-08-01 Thread Dianne Hackborn
No that isn't true. It is the C2DM mechanism. Android since 1.0 has had a single constant connection to google services to receive tickles when there are things to do -- single email or contacts, etc. One of the tickles is to perform app downloads. This is the exact same mechanism the C2DM is.

Re: [android-developers] Re: How Android Market's OTA works?

2011-08-01 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: No that isn't true.  It is the C2DM mechanism.  Android since 1.0 has had a single constant connection to google services to receive tickles when there are things to do -- single email or contacts, etc.  One of the