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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: getting in early... the android apk plan?Re: getting in early... the android apk plan?
From: Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:21:44 +1000 2010/8/11 Jonas Häggqvist <rasher_at_rasher.dk>: > On 11-08-2010 03:20, Jonathan Gordon wrote: > > The download size is listed on the market. If people are worried about their > data allowance, they can install over wifi. I don't think we should be that > worried about the size of the apk. Agreed although I dont think we should go out of our way to make it bigger than necessary. > I think it would be perfectly reasonable if the market contains only the > latest release and we host snapshot apks on rockbox.org which people can > install and update as they please. > > This seems like you want to completely bypass the market update mechanism. > It doesn't sound right to me. > Yes and no. I guess it depends how you tihnk about the apk. IMO it acts more like the bootloader on other targets and so should be treated more like that. Only being updated when needed. The code it launches should be easily user update-able. In IRC it was suggested (cant remember by who) that we do two apps in the market, one which only runs the release build and one which gets updated much more frequently (like from svn builds (which I think is too often to use the market for this.) That would be a (almost-)happy compromise for me. The problem is that users wanting to do their own builds would still need to go through a rather large effort in getting the android sdk going, building the apk, then signing it so they can give it to friends. It is FAR better for everyone if the official rockbox apk will just happily load any rockbox.zip (just like the ipod bootloader will load any rockbox.ipod). Heck I'd even be happy with a single rockbox.apk which is only updated for releases which has all the lcd sizes built into it if it has support for loading a rockbox.zip. Jonathan Received on 2010-08-11 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |