I have a question - can I have 2 apps, where the 1st app is in the package com.company.games.Game1 and the other in com.company.games.Game2
i.e. I guess the common prefix com.company.games is not a problem, right (just like "com." is not a problem for most of the apps)? On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > > jgf1979 wrote: >> I have developed two games, but when i try and install the second it >> replaces the first. In other words, Android belives the two games to >> be the same application. >> >> I have tried to find out this information, but my question is: what >> uniquely identifies an Android application? What is Android looking >> at to distinguish one app from another? > > The Java package is the unique identifier, at least in terms of the > effect you are experiencing. > > This is the value specified as the package attribute in the root > <manifest> tag in your AndroidManifest.xml file. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books.html > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
