On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Rangan <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) Is it legal to install Greader as an application on the devices > when it is shipped to customer? if yes, what is the best way to do it? > Can we simply use the apk file of Greader and install it on device? > Any other better ways?
You had sure better talk with the application author and sign a contract with them to have their app included. You can't just take it and put it on your device. > 2) When the applications are built, it will also have lot of > dependency on the hardware availability on device. If there is an > application developed for T G1 Mobile using the GPS hardware then this > application cannot work on another device which does not have GPS > hardware. Currently to be an Android compatible phone, you are going to need to have a GPS and the various other things that applications depend on. Since we have market place for Android today and mostly > targetting for T G1 mobile, how do we ensure that users must not able > to install it on devices that does not support all the required > hardware for device? There are few ways to deal with it. > a) Have market place specific to each device No way. > b) The application developers has to clearly document what is > the expected harwdare for the applications to work so that the users > are aware of whether would work on the device or not. This is mostly > manual then. And is already being done, for example an application can say that it requires a physical keyboard. > c) Ideally we should ensure that the application installation > must happen only if before installation, the compatibility check > passes. This is possible only if we bring in a framework design for > this structurally. Market already takes care of this, and won't display applications that aren't compatibility with the target phone. Ideally, though, the platform should take care of most of these things -- the introduction of soft keyboards being a representative example, where the platform goes to a fair amount of work to ensure that applications that were written for a hard keyboard still work with the input method. -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
