On Oct 21, 1:32 pm, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So is Google going to provide examples of how third parties can write > application directories with the same level of integration into the > phone as Marketplace has?
The only special integration the Android Market has is that it can use the direct call to install an app instead of going through the system install UI, and all this does is allow it to do the permission confirmation check before the user downloads an app instead of after. The only reason why market can do this is because it is bundled as part of the system image; if it wasn't, it wouldn't be able to do that, and likewise if someone else has a carrier bundle their app with a phone then they can do all of the same stuff. Also the purpose here is not to give the Android Market a special advantage, but to protect users: NO application installed as a third party app can directly install other applications, because that would effectively give it permission to everything in the world on the phone (because it could just install another app with any permissions it wants, with no confirmation by the user). We thought this was a little too dangerous to allow, especially for the small benefit it provides. (Btw, Market -is- using some public APIs, in particular a download manager, that are not yet available in the SDK. This is however something you can write yourself, and it is also an API we plan to make available to all apps in the future, we just didn't have time to get it ready for 1.0.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
