You beat me to it.
On Aug 24, 11:10 am, Peli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does this mean we should choose a unique package name for ADC2? Would
> this be recommended? (e.g. can we continue to use the package name
> after ADC2 is over, or do we have to choose a new package name if we
> switch back to Market?)
>
> E.g. if in the long run, we would like to use "com.myapp", then for
> now, we should use "com.myapp.adc2" or similar in order to avoid a
> future conflict?
>
> Peli
>
> On Aug 24, 7:48 pm, Dan Morrill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > This site is using the same infrastructure as the Android Market and shares
> > a unified namespace, primarily to avoid "squatting" issues. That is, we
> > want to make sure that if a developer submits an app via ADC2 that an evil
> > third party could not come along and put an app with the same package up on
> > the Market, before the legitimate developer could do so. This would be more
> > of an issue for users than the developer, but it's a case we wanted to
> > avoid.
> > Thus, we are using a unified namespace with the Market. While this does
> > mean a package rename in the future (and means a package rename today if you
> > want to submit an app published on Market after 1 August for ADC2), we
> > judged the inconvenience to be worth it to prevent that particular issue.
>
> > - Dan
>
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Mark Murphy
> > <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > > > The submission site for ADC 2 is now live! For full details, see our
> > > > blog post:
>
> > >http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/08/android-developer-chal...
>
> > > Great!
>
> > > I am concerned about the following quote from that blog post:
>
> > > "As a final note, if you've uploaded a version of your app to Android
> > > Market, you'll need to use a different Android package name for the
> > > version you submit to the Challenge."
>
> > > Will the ADC2 app be used, by anyone, outside of the ADC2 judging process?
> > > In other words, will developers have upgrade issues due to having the same
> > > app published under two package names? For example, if ADC2 basically
> > > means authors have to commit to supporting the ADC2 package name
> > > indefinitely, or run the risk of cutting off a chunk of their user base,
> > > that is not something to be taken lightly.
>
> > > Can we get a bit of clarification on this point?
>
> > > Thanks!
>
> > > --
> > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)
> > >http://commonsware.com
> > > Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html
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