[android-developers] Re: Distribute app to customer for review but no one else

Actually the att restriction is a relative non issue now that someone
wrapped the adb install capability (which always worked) into an end
user sideloading gui. That basically makes installing random third
party apps as easy as installing approved apps on att's "other" touch
screen phone family - in both cases you have to use a piece of desktop
software to do it.

Jason wrote:
> If you're talking about this:
>
> http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/06/15/lesson-not-learned-att-locks-down-the-htc-arias-app-selection/
>
> (or similar) then there is pretty much nothing you can do short of
> actually publishing the app to the app Market.
>
> Of course there's nothing wrong with this, you could just put some
> sort of password on the app so if anyone else downloaded it they
> couldn't use it.
>
> I think there may also be some options regarding who can see the app
> on the market that may be useful, but I haven't actually published yet
> myself so not sure.
>
> Maybe someone with more knowledge of the Market could help
>
> On Sep 18, 12:20 pm, Yepher <yepher.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am developing an Android application for a customer. I want to be
> > able to provide them (no one else) incremental updates but I am not
> > clear what the procedure should be.
> >
> > I don't want them to have to install development tools or root their
> > phone. These are non technical folks who would have no idea how to
> > accomplish root a phone or use a command line interface.
> >
> > When I develop iPhone applications for them this was easy. They just
> > give me the device UDID and I send them a binary that can be drag and
> > dropped into iTunes.
> >
> > How is this done on Android. I have tried loading the application from
> > a web server but the devices says it is not allowed to be loaded
> > because of security reasons. In setting->Applications there is no menu
> > option to "Allow Unknown sources".
> >
> > Thank  your for any help you can provide on this matter.

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