[android-developers] Re: Multiple concurrent versions of same app, filtered by minSdkVersion?

2010-08-02 Thread Brian Rak
Cool, thanks for the detailed reply. I guess I'll just have to make do with what I have for now. But if there are any Android OS developers reading, this would be a really great feature to include in the future! Brian On Aug 1, 12:38 pm, { Devdroid } webnet.andr...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 August

[android-developers] Re: Multiple concurrent versions of same app, filtered by minSdkVersion?

2010-08-01 Thread RichardC
Or leave minSdkVersion where it is and use reflection to add features from 2.2, testing at runtine obviously. More info here: http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/backward-compatibility.html On Aug 1, 1:12 pm, { Devdroid } webnet.andr...@gmail.com wrote: I have an app on Android

[android-developers] Re: Multiple concurrent versions of same app, filtered by minSdkVersion?

2010-08-01 Thread Brian Rak
Thanks for the reply. The problem with making separate apps is that existing customers will not be able to upgrade for free. And the code refactoring idea doesn't work, because the main point of the exercise is that I want the new version to contain all those resource files in the .apk itself,

[android-developers] Re: Multiple concurrent versions of same app, filtered by minSdkVersion?

2010-08-01 Thread Brian Rak
Actually, I wanted geo-load-balancing, so I'm using a content distribution network. Plus, you have to consider re-downloads of the content over several years by existing customers. At scale, based on patterns I've seen on other platforms, I expect it to cost a couple hundred bucks a month in data

[android-developers] Re: Multiple concurrent versions of same app, filtered by minSdkVersion?

2010-08-01 Thread Brian Rak
Richard, Thanks for the link to the article -- I hadn't seen that one. However, it doesn't address my core need, which is to have the existing version stay small, and the the new version have all resources packed inside it. Does anyone know how it actually works to publish an update with a

Re: [android-developers] Re: Multiple concurrent versions of same app, filtered by minSdkVersion?

2010-08-01 Thread { Devdroid }
On 1 August 2010 19:25, Brian Rak seattlenice...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply. The problem with making separate apps is that existing customers will not be able to upgrade for free. And the code refactoring idea doesn't work, because the main point of the exercise is that I want the