Dianne - that reminds me of another question - is the user going to have any way to get the .apk back off a device after installation ?
I'm wondering if we should expect this world to be a bit like old- school PalmOS, where users tended to pass apps around, or more like (I'm sorry for the comparison) Windows Mobile, where once they have installed it they probably don't keep the .cab and so don't pass the app on to their friends. Thanks, Richard On Dec 17, 2:07 am, "Dianne Hackborn" <hack...@android.com> wrote: > We deliberately do not do this, so we can always reset the application back > to the initial state it was installed in. Keeping .apks entirely > self-contained, self-sufficient, and without needing some external installer > that you can loose is of tremendous value in being able to manage everything > the user has installed and simplifying their experience. > > This is something that I will very strongly push back from changing, and is > central to just about everything about how we manage applications, such as > the fact that applications don't go and explicitly register themselves with > part of the system, but rather declare those things in the manifest. > > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Urs Grob <grob....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It would be nice to have something like an installation package that > > contains the apk as well as some files that are only needed during > > installation time. Like this you could deploy e.g. your sqlite db file > > with some initial content or some files that maybe should be stored > > inflated on the sdcard. > > > -- Urs > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:33 PM, jarkman <jark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the confirmation. Still seems like a shame... :-) > > > > R. > > > > On Dec 16, 5:25 pm, "Dianne Hackborn" <hack...@android.com> wrote: > > >> The .apk is read-only, and can not be modified. > > > >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:49 AM, jarkman <jark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > We've got a similar issue, with a bunch of files that we extract from > > >> > the apk on first run and will never need in the apk again. > > > >> > It is a terrible waste of space to leave them there. Shame. > > > >> > Richard > > > >> > On Dec 15, 9:16 pm, Ralf <ralfo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > You can think of the the APK as being a read-only zip file, so I > > don't > > >> > > think you can remove anything from it. You don't really need to > > remove > > >> > > your lib from the apk anyway, do you? > > > >> > > R/ > > > >> > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:50 AM, shuoshuo <wzshuos...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> > > > I have made an application, it uses a C++ shared library, I want > > >> > > > deploy it by including it with the .apk package, at run time, copy > > it > > >> > > > from the assets to a file, then remove it from assets in apk, how > > >> > > > could I remove a file from assets in apk at runtime? or Is there > > any > > >> > > > other alternative to deploy a C++ shared library? > > > >> -- > > >> 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. All such questions should be posted on public > > >> forums, where I and others can see and answer them. > > -- > 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. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
