Re: [android-developers] Re: How to update pre-installed apps

2010-07-24 Thread TreKing
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Joseph Earl wrote: > If it's possible, please give the user an option to remove the program > if they want, since it's well... kind of their phone and I think users > (quite rightly) expect a degree of control. > Some of the apps that come with phones I love and us

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to update pre-installed apps

2010-07-24 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Current states: As of 1.6 Market allows installing updates to apps that already exist pre-installed on the system image. Currently however it does not know about these apps until the user explicitly installs an update, so for the initial case where the app only exists pre-installed it will not be

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to update pre-installed apps

2010-07-24 Thread Webnet Android
> Are you sure about that? Because I had Google Maps pre-installed on my G1 Not 100% sure now as it was a while ago I played with it, but this can be easily verified. Assuming you got rooted device put i.e. your old version of your app's APK in /system/apps or /data/apps and then launch Market to

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to update pre-installed apps

2010-07-24 Thread TreKing
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Webnet Android wrote: > It makes no difference if app is preinstalled or downloaded. It will > appear in "Downloads" section of Market as long such package also exists in > Market > Are you sure about that? Because I had Google Maps pre-installed on my G1 before t

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to update pre-installed apps

2010-07-24 Thread Webnet Android
On 24 July 2010 00:43, Albert wrote: > The thing is that because the app is pre-installed it does not appear > under the "downloads" section on the Android Market. It makes no difference if app is preinstalled or downloaded. It will appear in "Downloads" section of Market as long such package als

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to update pre-installed apps

2010-07-23 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Albert wrote: > The thing is that because the app is pre-installed it does not > appear under the "downloads" section on the Android Market. > You could release two versions together - the pre-installed one on the device and one for the market that has a higher v