Hi, No you are not obligated by the Distribution Agreement regarding support or updates by my reading.
I just interpret some of it as suggesting that support of your apps is desirable. And Dianne mentioned stuff that I was not aware. ( Nothing could be supported for perpetuity ;-) Version 1.5 vintage phones are likely to die off anyway as the normal consequence of hardware failure due to age - battery won't charge any longer etc. Regards On Jan 20, 10:48 am, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]> wrote: > That cannot be right. That would mean you have to forever support > every version of Android. And does the Distirbution Agreement talk > about having to give the users updates and supports for perpetuity? I > doubt you are even required to give even a single update to your app. > > On Jan 19, 2:49 pm, gjs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > I'd also suggest rereading the Android Market Distribution Agreement > > if you are withdrawing V1.5 paid apps & your support for them - > > particularly given Dianne's comments about just bumping minSDK & old > > versions still being available. > > > I think you may still have to provide refunds under some > > circumstances, when you may have thought your V1.5 version was no > > longer being distributed. > > > Regards. > > > On Jan 18, 9:48 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Huh. Well it could well be, that was so long ago it is hard to remember. > > > :} > > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:42 PM, String > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > FWIW, I had the same experience, now that you mention it. Using @dimen > > > > references in widget layout XML doesn't work on 1.5. > > > > > Bit of a PITA, but I just went ahead and created a few more layouts > > > > (rather > > > > than resizing them based on dimens) and moved on. It didn't seem like a > > > > big > > > > enough problem to seriously consider not supporting 1.5 for, and since > > > > it > > > > was apparently fixed by 1.6, neither did it seem worth raising as an > > > > issue > > > > anywhere. > > > > > I haven't had time to dig into the AOSP links you posted, Dianne, but I > > > > can > > > > back Kostya up on this - it was broken in Cupcake. > > > > > String > > > > > -- > > > > 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%2Bunsubs > > > > [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.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- 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
