Current states: As of 1.6 Market allows installing updates to apps that already exist pre-installed on the system image. Currently however it does not know about these apps until the user explicitly installs an update, so for the initial case where the app only exists pre-installed it will not be listed as downloaded nor will the user be told about updates.
In the future I know the market team is working on being able to discover these pre-installed apps and prompt the user when there are updates, but I don't know when that will appear. (When it does, though, I think it should eventually be available across all devices, since as of 1.6 Market can also self-update itself.) On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Webnet Android <webnet.andr...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Are you sure about that? Because I had Google Maps pre-installed on my G1 > > Not 100% sure now as it was a while ago I played with it, but this can > be easily verified. > Assuming you got rooted device put i.e. your old version of your app's > APK in /system/apps > or /data/apps and then launch Market to see if it will appear in and > update will be offered > (assuming newer one is on Market, of course :) > > As for Maps - I got a feeling that i.e. Milestone comes with number of > preinstalled > apps (incl. Maps) and there was no problem with the updates (Market app > reported > and downloaded w/o problem). Got no G1 to check that but it maybe some > other > factor too - maybe others will be more handy. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
