[android-developers] Re: Advice on Beta Release

2009-10-22 Thread Smelly Eddie
I think i will stick with Andrei's advice and release it into android market. I dont think we need to support dozens of separate locations to provide access to apps when there is already centralized source. I will however encourage/submit a ticket for the android market to allow apps to be

[android-developers] Re: Advice on Beta Release

2009-10-22 Thread Smelly Eddie
Vote for issue 4319 Market should allow Beta releases http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4319 Snippet; Add 1 field to submission process for the release level (beta / public) The market should, by default hide all apps marked Beta. Users may optionally choose to view said Beta

[android-developers] Re: Advice on Beta Release

2009-10-16 Thread Al Sutton
At AndAppStore You can mark a release as being Alpha, Beta, or Release Candidate quality and it'll get listed in the Pre-release section. That way you can do some ramp up publicity pointing at the download as opposed to risking getting bug reports in your comments if people think its' a full

[android-developers] Re: Advice on Beta Release

2009-10-16 Thread André
I have implemented the Flurry API (see flurry.com) into my own game Puzzle Blox Arcade! and released it as Beta on both AndAppStore.com and SlideMe.org. On both websites I have marked it as BETA release in the summary/description. Flurry enables you to get detailed statistics about the users of

[android-developers] Re: Advice on Beta Release

2009-10-15 Thread Andrei
Publish it as beta, tell people email you any bugs, if you see problems you can Unpublish app and fix bugs, publish newer version On Oct 15, 3:57 pm, Smelly Eddie ollit...@gmail.com wrote: SO i have an application that is doing pretty well on my dev. device, and it is almost ready for prime