On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:39 PM, vol <[email protected]> wrote:

> So, if I specify LOCAL_CERTIFICATE := platform, would the apk be
> usable on any user's device?


You really shouldn't be using the platform build system to create your own
applications that you are going to distribute separately from the platform.
That is what the SDK tools are for.

If you do this, you are going to sign your app with a dummy certificate that
you don't own, which somebody else could use to fake your app (since it is
right out there in the public source tree), and which will probably expire
some time in the not far future and cause you all kinds of grief.  (Actually
Market should hopefully prevent you from uploading an app signed with such a
cert.)


> Or would it have to be a device running a
> version of android that I signed? Additionally, is it possible to
> perform this functionality via the eclipse plugin? I see options to
> set the debug keystore, but not much else.


The SDK tools take care of all of this stuff for you, in the context of
writing a third party app.  If you are distributing something separate from
a platform build shipped on a device, that is the way you should do it.

-- 
Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
[email protected]

Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
provide private support.  All such questions should be posted on public
forums, where I and others can see and answer them.

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