On Oct 22, 12:02 pm, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the case of the emergency services dialling, this shouldn't be an > outright block on apps dialling the number, the OS should limit the > behaviour (e.g. The OS pops up a system dialogue asking the user for > confirmation if the emergency service number is dialled).
You can absolutely do this. Just launch the dialer with the desired number, to let the user confirm the call. > Users love customisation. There are companies that survive purely on > selling ring tones and wallpapers to phone users. And most phone users > don't want to get involved in technical issues, so they aren't going to > install a James Bond dialler and say "OK, if I need emergency services > I'll switch my dialler app", they're just going to say "The built in > dialler lets me dial 911, this dialler must be shoddy if it doesn't". > Similarly they aren't going to go "The SlideME app is doing the best it > can with it's limited UI flow", they're going to say "Market place is > far slicker than SlideME, so I'm going to stick with that?" The ONLY difference between the two is the SlideME needs to download the app first... so it can go through the OS's install confirmation dialog (which needs to have the .apk already downloaded to verify with the user what is being installed)... which seems to be exactly what you are advocating. So what is the big deal? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
