They are not part of the SDK, so they may change. "considered stabled APIs" and "for use by system applications" is a somewhat contradictory. System applications generally don't care about stable APIs because... well, they are built as part of the system build, so know exactly what they are building against.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Calvin White <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if the @hide tag on the documentation for > PackageManager.installPackage() and PackageManager.deletePackage() is > because these APIs are not meant to be used by general application > developers or because they are likely to be changed or removed in the > near future? I understand that they are protected with > signatureOrSystem Permissions and thus could only be called from > system applications, but can they be considered stable APIs for use by > system applications? > > Regards, > Calvin > > Calvin White > Wind River Solutions Mobile Delivery > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
