On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't understand your argument at all. > Sorry if I'm not being clear. > Read the docs (link below). > Believe me, I've read the docs - quite thoroughly. > If you, me, Amazon or anyone wanted to make our own market that responded > to market-intended intents, we would only have to have an Intent filter that > handles data in the scheme(s) and pattern(s) that Google's market uses. > Yes - however, we would also need the user to have our apps installed to actually respond to those intents, right? And you cannot force the user to install your app, right? Therefore, if you are running a store where you are selling apps and you don't want these apps leading people to other competing stores, the only way to ensure that they lead back to your store is for the apps to EXPLICITLY lead back to your store. See what I'm saying? > I'm not saying they need to make an app that handles this...they already > did. It's called Amazon Market, and I'm pretty sure it has Activities for > displaying package details and publisher details the way the Google one > does. > Probably - but again, there's no guarantee that the user would have the Amazon app installed to handle the intent. That's my point. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- 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.
