Sunday, August 1, 2010

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

On 1 August 2010 19:25, Brian Rak <seattleniceguy@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 new version to contain all those resource files in
> the .apk itself, which I don't want for the older version.

No luck then. However it would be quite useful if you could have more than one
APK per version depending on OS version, it's not going to happen. as Market
filters apps also based on other conditions (i.e. MMC, screen-size, etc, etc).
So it would probably be to complicated and most people simply do not need that.
You would solve your problem by releasing other APK with resources (however
it depends on what "resources" really means) and use it from your main app.
But if you would need to use sharedUserId (and you have not set it since
1st release) then you are again out of luck due to bugs in older
android versions:
http://java-hamster.blogspot.com/2010/05/androids-shareduserid.html

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