I wouldn't expect this to happen soon -- being able to run an .apk from the browser essentially means installing it, so that the security permissions it requests can be granted to it, so the user needs to be involved with what is going on. At the end of the day, I can't really see this as being a whole lot easier than just having a link to the app on Market. I think there is a really important distinction between something the browser runs for the user, vs. something the user explicitly decides to install. The former you want to much more tightly sandbox and control; once you pass the line to the user explicitly installing it, things open up a lot more.
Also as a purely practical matter, right now the browser runs as a single uid; to be able to download an .apk and run it in the browser (assuming we are okay with not giving this code any special permissions so no need to involve the user) would require creating and assigning it a temporary uid and running it in its own process... which is again basically installing it as a full-fledged app, just not showing a permissions dialog (because there are none). There is also a lot in the framework that closely depends on an application being published in the package manager as a real app, which the activity manager and others can manage, for most of the basic Android APIs to work. On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:25 AM, guruk <ilovesi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > first I like to thank you the whole Android Team and all Users who > helped me over time with me Questions. > Amazing Work. My simple App "My Days" is now in the Top 100 from > Android Apps. > > What I like to suggest now for the Android Project is the Option to > run ".apk's" in a Browser. > That may sound a bit crazy, but also imagine how cool it would be to > see your App running in a Browser > > http://code.google.com/p/drine/ > > is the first Project I saw working on that Idea and I like it a lot. > > In my View it would need a Plugin from Google Android for a Browser > like Chrome, FF, IE ... > that would allow to run .apks > > Is something like that planned or just what do you think about? > > Greets > Chris > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
