[android-developers] Re: Cupcakes Email and K9

2008-12-18 Thread Al Sutton
Having read further down the list one of the changes to the framework is; - Support third party updates of system applications. New menu options in Settings->ManageApplications to list updated system applications. Does this mean I will be able to replace the Email app with K9 on a G1 when a c

[android-developers] Re: Cupcakes Email and K9

2008-12-18 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
The detailed discussion about merging K9 changes will belong on android-platform (since it's explicitly about actively contributing code changes into Android). Too keep it short: it makes the merge of K9 into Android much easier, because it'll allow open cooperation between the K9 authors and the

[android-developers] Re: Cupcakes Email and K9

2008-12-18 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Correct that feature is to just allow you to install an app update just like you would of a third party app. To be able to update, the new app must be signed with the same certificate as the one built into the system. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote: > > The detailed

[android-developers] Re: Cupcakes Email and K9

2008-12-18 Thread Michael
I notice that we can't remove the "system packages" either. I just tried "adb uninstall com.android.email" and of course it didn't work... got: W/PackageManager( 48): Attempt to delete system package com.android.email from the emulator. Figured I'd see if I could save some space :) --~--~-

[android-developers] Re: Cupcakes Email and K9

2008-12-18 Thread Dianne Hackborn
The system image is read-only. No, you can't remove things from there. And it would be pointless to, because no data can be written there. And besides you'd get it back in the next OTA update... unless that update was incremental and relied on the current system image to be how it expects and y