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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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) ...
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.
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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