Scenario: Customer purchases hundreds of licenses for software app (and accompanying back end). This client software is highly customizable as to what, when, and where it reports and to the customers liking (literally hundreds of settings and tweaks). The client software polls for config changes through a web service call. However, customers are asking for a way to have their sys admins deploy the app apk and config for their environment(s) with out having to install the app, go to a settings page, and type in the config web services URL on hundreds of devices. Essentialy, they want a way (like we have on our other platforms) to deploy a customizable initial config with all the right communication settings. Since there isn't a file manager or .Net XML config files or anything similar to help facilitate this in android, I looked at embedding a raw resource, but that has to be done at development time by the developer. I then saw that one could (from a package name) find the installation apk file on the device and open it as a ZipFile, but adding a file to the apk also fails the signing check if done post development. Since the app has no UI, there isn't a place to have a PreferencesActivity, and it doesn't fix the real problem of giving the sys admin the ability to have a turn-key install of the apk. I hope this clarifies what I'm trying to accomplish.
On Aug 3, 12:53 pm, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:53 AM, droidbm <droi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have no way of knowing customer environment settings at apk build > > time so SharedPreferences as you described is out. > > If the customer > > (possibly with an accompanying utility) could unzip the apk, adjust > > the settings file, and then deploy it, but I ran into signing issues > > with both raw resources and directly reading the apk as a zip. > > I'm getting confused. So your customer is someone who is going to set up the > app and then turn around and re-distribute it? > > I don't see how you can pre-configure an app when you don't know the > pre-configurations ... > > And you WANT them to be able to muck with your APK after you've signed it > and handed it over? How is this any better than a UI where they set this up? > > You may want to further clarify and elaborate on your use case. I for one am > not sure about what you're really trying to do here. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- 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
