badgaz wrote: > I know this has been discussed many times before but it is a > particular point of Android that is irritating me. > > There is no doubt that the demand is there for such as feature > ( http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1151&q=sd > card&colspec=ID ) but Google are keeping quiet about it. This issue is > restricting the success of the Market and making buying apps a > difficult choice for customers when they know they'll probably end up > having to delete it sooner rather than later. Some people seem > concerned about the piracy implications of this but with the only > current resolution being to root your device this issue is only making > piracy worse and a secure method to install apps on an SD card would > allow people to embrace the Market much more and improve sales. > > There are a lot of G1s out there and I'm sure the HTC Magic is going > to sell just as well. Lets get this issue fixed and get them buying > apps on the Market yes?
It feels like I just posted something like this five days ago... As has been discussed many times, it is not that easy to implement. It's not impossible, just not that easy, particularly to work within the existing Android security framework. Moreover, there are only so many people on the core Android team with the expertise to implement it, and there are other demands being made of their time. If you'd like to help make it happen, you could: -- Contribute engineering time and skill and write a patch -- Start and promote a fundable or pledgie or something to raise funds from interested people, so the funders can hire somebody to build it -- Find ways to help simplify contributions to the open source project, and hope that with fewer barriers, more people will submit patches, and one of them will implement the feature you seek -- Pray that ADC II has a prize pool set up for firmware contributions (instead of only for apps), and then try to help out some team working to win an ADC II prize that is building an apps-on-SD feature -- Wait patiently for Android device manufacturers to offer more built-in capacity, and then buy their devices instead of ones with limited built-in capacity I am sure there are other constructive tactics; these are just a few. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Available! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
