> Why are you running on Windows platforms?

Because Android lacks USB host support, webcam support, and external
camera support in general. Also because Windows still has some market
share.

>> A horrible way of balkanizing the global Android market!
>
> You say this as if this is being forced on to you with no choice in the
> matter.

Surely I can - and for the time being will - drop the Amazon Appstore
if they cannot come up with a more elegant solution than simply
forbidding searches on the Android Market. If many more developers
protest, Amazon Appstore policies will change.

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:47 PM, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:18 PM, blindfold <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> I think it is too messy.
>
> Writing an interface whose concrete type is determine by a simple flag is
> messier than multiple code branches? OK then ...
>
>>
>> On Windows I have a single executable that runs on Window 95, 98, ME, NT,
>> 2000, XP, Vista and 7 (of course with
>> some internal OS version checks for special supported features),
>
> You lost me. I thought we were doing Android programming. Why are you
> running on Windows platforms?
>
>>
>> but now we must build different executables (APKs) even for a
>> single Android OS version, with different behaviors depending on
>> who distributes the app?
>
> If you've designed your app to have functionality related to the market on
> which it was distributed and plan to distribute it on different markets,
> then yes, you must build different APKs with different behaviors depending
> on *who you tie the app to*. This is not an issue if you don't use
> market-dependent functionality (like "view my other apps").
>
>>
>> A horrible way of balkanizing the global Android market!
>
> You say this as if this is being forced on to you with no choice in the
> matter.
>
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