I have an app which I have just updated to froyo to take advantage of the move to SD card feature. I am now trying to upload the update to the market but I keep getting the following error: "The file is invalid: W/ResourceType( 7193): Bad string block: last string is not 0- terminated ERROR getting 'android:label' attribute: attribut...
Hello, i have written an application that needs to process outgoing calls. Everything works fine, the application has already a few hundred downloads, but now i get feedback from people who would like to download it, yet cannot find it. I have done some tests and have found that the permission "PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS" seems to be res...
Does the android market support distribution of content packages? Is there any way a dependency structure can be created so that to obtain a content package for the app depends on the app to be installed as well? ...
Hi, i have read on the market support that "If you have previously published an application for free, you cannot change it to have a price." But I was wondering, if at the contrary I change my app from payed to free and some time after i want to re change it from free to payed! Can I? And if yes, Have I to wait some period (I have read ...
I have some required try/catch statements in my application that in my testing never get called. I have sent them up with: Log.e("messaage", e.toString()); for my debugging and now that I'm ready to release I am not sure if I should take that out or not. I see in android market you can get error/crash reports and while I do not exp...
(Question also posted here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=68dc1f694537c7dc&hl=en ) http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/publishing.html recommends searching for apps by Developer Name using the URL: market://search?q=pub: I can't get this to work for two word names. For instance, if I want...
Reading the users' feedbacks about my apps is really important, but in my phone I can only read those written in the language of my phone (Italian). Is there a way to read all of them? A program for PC or a website could be a good solution. (Actually Cyrket and AndroLib read comments directly from the market, but sometimes they don't ...
I have tried via <a href="market://search?q=pname:com.google.zxing.client.android"</a> but it is not working. I have also checked in Google Android T-mobile G1 but it does not show me link. How can i embed link of android market application link in sms? ...
I got my Galaxy S from SingTel in Singapore. Since the day i got it I cannot download any apps from Android Market. However if I do a factory reset I can download 5 to 10 apps most. After that all apps stuck @ "Starting download". I kept in this state for 3 days. Nothing happens. Does not succeed or fail either. Any solution without fact...
I am nearly done with my first android app and there's still a bit more work to do but I want to get feedback from users about what they like/hate/bugs to fix, etc. I plan on making the app free with ads. Now I have been testing my app on my phone (HTC Magic) and plan on doing some simple testing on the emulator using different configura...
I've found today that my recently published app on the Android Market, is not showing up on this device Market: Samsung Apollo. I've already followed this tutorial to make my app accesible to almost all devices configurations and it still don't show on that device's Market. What am I doing wrong? ...
Hi, The developer console provides basic install statistics but does not provide any historical data or graphs. Many sites (androidzoom.com and many more) provide a view of the Market but they seem to be very out of date and generally provide much less granular data. Is there any way to access the data Google already has on my applicat...
Some Android devices don't have Android Market, like Korea, etc. Is it possible to detect the existence of Android Market at runtime? I know I can try to open a market uri first to see if there is any exception thrown. But I don't think this is a wise approach. ...
When downloading and installing updates from Android Market, you often see an update comment like version 1.2.14 Bugfix on... version 1.2.15 Added settings menu and so on. How is that comment made? I couldn't see a update comment field in the market today. Thanx for listening! ...
I am building many apps for Android and wish to have a menu button in the apps that basically opens a list of my other apps in the Android Market. Is there a way to create an intent and have the Android market pop up with a search (of my company) in the market so users can buy other apps? ian ...
Hi guys, we have an app for Android called OnTheRoad (market://search/?q=pname:eu.inmite.prj.otr.aclient ), but for certain reason, it is not visible if I access Android Market from Vodafone 845 phone (Huawei Joy). The phone has QVGA screen resolution and runs Android 2.1 system. The app is 1.5+ compatible and has enabled support for s...
To Launch the market I usually do this: Intent intent = new Intent( Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("market://search?q=pname:com.package.package2.package3")); startActivity(intent); But I would like to run a search based on a keyword like "Happy Toasters" What is the URL for that kind of search? ...
I have uploaded an application in Android market. But when I search for the app the app do not appear in the autocomplete box which appears below the search box. For example, if I type "h" in the search box the autocomplete box will have the applications with "h". But in my case I need to type the complete name of the application. Wh...
Hi. I'm thinking about making some apps for phones. For the sake of this discussion say it's a generic Yet Another Zombie Shooter game, for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, or OVI Market. It is a kind of casual game that the customer would fire up while in boring class in school or waiting for a bus to come in. Let's also say that the game b...
I'm finding a great many people buy my Android app in the google market and immediately return it for a refund. That works fine with physical goods, but for virtual goods, they have now acquired the app for free! Has anyone else noticed this fatal flaw in the Google Android market for apps? What other markets are there without this p...