Ok Cool. Any ideas how I can test this myself to see how it works? Do you know if this is available with Android 1.5?
On Apr 6, 7:10 am, Stephen Lebed <srle...@gmail.com> wrote: > I haven't had any issues upgrading my app through the market. In fact > I haven't had any issues at all. Once your app is on the market, > you'll have an option to upgrade it. When you do upload your upgrade, > anyone who has your app installed will get a notification > automatically. If they go to select the upgrade notification in the > toolbar it will go directly into the market app and display your app > with upgrade available next to its name. The user simple selects it > to update the app. Its all very simple and well designed. My only > gripe is that the developer console is limited in terms how you can > interface with it (ie more images, more room for description, search > tags, more catagories, ect.) > > Hope this helps! > Stephen Lebed > Developer > "On The Level 3" > > On Apr 5, 3:03 pm, Eurig Jones <eurigjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Apr 5, 11:42 pm, "~ TreKing" <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Eurig Jones <eurigjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm intending to release my application through the Android Market and I > > > > want to make sure I can deploy new releases of the app and the users > > > > will be > > > > able to be notified of these and upgrade to them as soon as they can. > > > > This should happen automatically via the Android Market app. > > > Even for Android 1.5? > > > > > The Android documentation states that, appart from the > > > > android:versionCode > > > > property, it is entirely up to the application to provide an upgrade > > > > routine. > > > > This is entirely optional and not necessary. In fact, I'd recommend you > > > not > > > waste your time with it and let people be notified by the Android Market > > > app > > > (when it work, it often doesn't) or discover it on their own. > > > So I guess the market app for doing this is a bit unreliable then? > > > > > What is the best strategy to achieve this? > > > > I don't know about "best", but you could simple have a file on a server > > > that > > > had nothing more than a version code in it. On start up you app could > > > check > > > this file and see if the code in that file was greater than it's own > > > current > > > code. If so, it would notify the user that a new version was available and > > > could take them to the market to get it. > > > Ok. So once I notify the user that there is a new release available, > > where or how do I link to the correct screen in the Market app for > > them to download it? > > > Thanks for your reply! > > Eurig Jones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
