Android :: Distributing Service-based Application On Market
Nov 22, 2010
We going to develop commercial application that will run on Android platform and now I'm thinking about distribution model.
Application itself will be of no use to regular Android user and will be installed only by people who know why they need it. Application will authenticate with server prior to launch.
We as a company will charge application users monthly fee and will track usage, etc via our servers.
So, I was wondering if there "locked" portion of market for this kind of stuff? Or, do I release app as a free one and if random people download it - they just won't be able to use it?
What is the best way to do that? Can I install application by giving users our URL?
I'm trying to make it as easy as possible.
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Oct 28, 2010
I have a Service which tracks the location of the user. Currently, the Service boots when the application starts and stops when the application terminates. Unfortunately, if users keep the application in the background, the Service never stops and drains battery.
I would like the Service to stop when my application is not in the foreground. I was hoping the Application class would let me Override onPause and onResume handlers, but it does not have them.
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Apr 17, 2010
What's your experience distributing Android apps outside of the Android Market? Which alternative markets an Android developer should consider? Any success/horror stories?
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Oct 28, 2010
Is it possible to distribute an Android service as a jar? Any documentation available on how to do this and any gotchas?
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Jul 26, 2010
Under what circumstances would using AIDL to define a service interface be the correct decision (rather than just creating an extension to the service class)?
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Jan 31, 2010
Suppose that I installed app A and app B, app A has a main activity, and app B wants to show that activity by sending a intent. My question is that how android knows I have installed app A and is able to map the intent to its activity? Is there any windows-registry-like store saving such information?
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May 6, 2010
I'm trying to write an app that consists of an activity that manages a background service. However, I want to implement a user setting for automatically starting the service up at boot time. I have user settings implemented with SharedPreferences and I have the services starting up at boot by using a BroadcastReceiver and listening for BOOT_COMPLETED. However, I can't figure out a good way to implement a setting so that the service is only started at boot if said setting is enabled. I can think of a few cheap ways to do this (such as messing with onCreate() in the service, or creating/checking for a file on SD card) but I want to follow good practice. There must be a good way to do this because there's tons of apps out there that do it, I just can't find anything online about how to do it.
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Jun 22, 2010
(Question also posted here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=68dc1f694537c7dc&hl=en )
http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/publishing.html
recommends searching for apps by Developer Name using the URL: market://search?q=pub:
I can't get this to work for two word names. For instance, if I want to search for all of Google's apps on the Market, I would search for 'Google Inc.' since if you look at Google Earth, Google Sky Map, etc. those are all published by 'Google Inc.'
I've tried the following:
market://search?q=pub:Google%2BInc%2E
(equivalent of: Google+Inc.)
market://search?q=pub:Google%20Inc%2E
(equivalent of: Google Inc.)
market://search?q=pub:Google Inc.
(equivalent of: Google Inc.)
market://search?q=pub:Google+Inc.
(equivalent of: Google+Inc.)
but none work.
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Jan 20, 2009
How do I distribute my app to some friends who have G1s (yea, I'm looking at you, Scott!) for QA testing and feedback? My app certainly isn't ready to be put into any of the marketplaces. I don't have a problem giving out the source code, but I'd prefer to give him a nice binary file to install. Besides, I can see problems with keystore.debug and compiling and the like.
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Apr 22, 2009
I was wondering if anyone has ever been able to distribute their app in a bundle with an emulator?
The reason I want to do this is that I have some friends who don't have android phones, but I'd like them to be able to play with my app so that they can give me feedback. I've previously sent them screen casts, but I'd really like them to be able to get interactive with the app.
Now I could ask them to get all installed with the whole android framework, eclipse etc,. but some of them are not so technical. Ideally what I'd like to be able to do is create a package that is the android emulator with my app and perhaps 1 or 2 other related apps pre- installed, so that they can download it, open it and run it interactively on their computers?
Has anyone ever tried this?
So far I found that I can run the emulator standalone, and I assume I could probably send them just that and it would run. However the adb tool is needed to install apps. I could send them that too, and ask the to run an 'adb install myapp.apk' from the command line, but at the moment I can't even seem to do that myself.
Running the emulator standalone, the adb tool can't seem to see it:
samuel-josephs-computer-2:tools samueljoseph$ sudo ./adb devices List of devices attached
I just get no list of devices ...
I have previously used the adb tool to install apk files, but that is after I had started the emulator from eclipse - of course even then I always have to restart eclipse and the emulator two or three times before I can get the connection (I am on OSX 10.5.6., eclipse 3.4.1) ...
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Jul 30, 2010
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Sep 14, 2010
I am very new to Android Development. I am trying a sample application and it is generating a button dynamically using Java and it is working fine.
This works fine in my emulator. However when i try do with an XML based layout, my app crashes in the emulator.
Main.XML contents
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Button xmlns:android="com.testing"
android:id="@+id/button"
android:text=""
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
Code:
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
btn=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button);
btn.setOnClickListener(this);
updateTime();}
Does anyone know why this simple application is crashing because of the XML layout?
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Mar 16, 2009
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Sep 25, 2009
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When I run the WikiTude browser application in emulator it asks me to set location settings. I enabled "Enable GPS satellites" option & run the application, again it make an alert for location settings. I am not able to run this application. Please help me.
Can anyone tell me is it possible to run GPS based application in Android Emulator? Or not?
If it is, Is there any work around to run GPS based application in emulator?
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I think my url should be:
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Error: Server Error
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I just launched my app VLC Remote and was surprised to see that there isn't a way to post a link to the app on the market that works both on my android device and also in my browser.
-so I made a way, and I'm opening it up for all-comers.
What it does is lets you post an http link like this
http://and-download.hobbyistsoftware.com/android/download?name=VLC Remote&q=pname:com.hobbyistsoftware.android.vlcremote
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details are here:[url]
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Note: the application com.mybrowser.android doesn't exists in the market-place.
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CODE:..........
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CODE:..................
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