Dianne, when would you recommend using sharedUserId? Also, are these
subtleties documented anywhere?
Doug
On Monday, March 19, 2012 5:57:33 PM UTC-7, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
I strongly recommend avoiding sharedUserId. Note that once you publish an
app with this, you can never go back. It
I have only ever used it in once case...
I have two apps on the market. Once is free and the other is a paid plugin
that unlocks features in the free app. The sharedUserId setting was
perfect for me because it allowed me to do my license checking in the paid
app and save certain things about
I would recommend using it for .apks that are going to be built in to the
system image (not distributed on Market) and want to have their code
running in a common shared process in order to reduce their overall memory
footprint. That is the reason this facility was implemented. I think it
was a
If you want to share things like preferences between the different apps
then you will want to make sure that you also give them the same
sharedUserId attribute in the manifest:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest-element.html#uid
Thanks,
Justin Anderson
MagouyaWare
I strongly recommend avoiding sharedUserId. Note that once you publish an
app with this, you can never go back. It will have a lot of subtle
repercussions on your app that you may not like -- everything from all of
the apps with the same shared user ID being batched together in accounting
for
I am developing two applications that will share functionality via their
activities. I would like to only allow applications signed with the same
certificate to start these activities.
My plan is to create a custom permission with protection level of signature
and apply that permission to
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Ryan Reeves rreeves...@gmail.com wrote:
I am developing two applications that will share functionality via their
activities. I would like to only allow applications signed with the same
certificate to start these activities.
My plan is to create a custom
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