I'm currently working on understanding exactly how the market checks for compatibility and circumvent it by creating the illusion of whatever features are required despite their non existence on a specific device. I'm not worried about a device not being able to handle an application once it has been downloaded, i'm just focusing on attempting to be able to download directly from the market on a devices that should not be compatible with that software. I'd appreciate any and all information the community is willing to contribute to the cause.
Thanks,
Isaiahhhhh
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This was their response to my questions related to the Viewsonic G-Tablet:
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Hi,
Thank you for your reply. After further research, according to our records, the device that you are using is not supported for use with Android Market at this time.
The Android operating system is open source, which means that any device manufacturer is free to use Android on its devices. However, Android Market is an application created by Google that is only made available to devices that pass Google’s compatibility requirements. In addition, manufacturers must obtain a license from Google in order to install Android Market on their devices.
For more information about the Android Compatibility Program, please visit source.android.com/compatibility/index.html
If you have any further questions, I recommend contacting the manufacturer of your device directly.
If I can assist you further, please let me know.
Regards,
Jenna
The Android Market Team
What did you ask and did you really expect support on an unsupported device?
Sorta like taking a netbook with snow leopard to the genius bar and asking for help with iTunes.
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This was their response to my questions related to the Viewsonic G-Tablet:
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Wow.. you found this site, you found this forum, and you missed the million different posts for Market Fix, Full Android Market, etc...
You need to do some work to get the market working on the GTab. Out of the box it's not supported. It's likely never going to be officially supported unless by some miracle we get a honeycomb update from Viewsonic.
In the meantime, it is pretty easy to get access. Just don't ask Google for help doing it.
And, there's always the Amazon market, which works just swell...
Hello to all on this forum.
I have a Flash application that I want to develop into an Android app. I would not require some of the bells and whistles that are currently on the application, but a simple sub-set of how it works now. The flash application can be found here:
FastFood.com/nutrition/
(Hope this URL is allowed here as it will help people understand what I want to do.)
I have all the source files and programming for this and hoped they would be of some help in developing the Android app. But of course, I have no idea if this is any help at all to whoever develops the app for me.
Anyway, before trying to source a developer to do this for me, I thought I should ask a few questions to see if this is even something practical. So I hope some of you can give me some guidance regarding my questions.
1) Are most applications stand alone in the mobile phone, or is it common for some of these apps to access the network to get the necessary data required to operate? My purpose requires a database that is currently 14 megs, and must be accessible to the app, although only small portions of it are needed at any one time.
2) Are there varying systems within the Android family, or versions of the operating system that need to be accounted for?
3) Are there good reasons to develop for both Android and iPhone together? I mean from a cost to develop point of view? Or would it likely be just as effective to develop for Android, then move on to iPhone, or others, as is appropriate?
4) I am guessing that if you have looked at the flash version of our Calorie Counter, you could probably give an educated guess as to what it might cost to replicate a scaled down version for Android. So please, take a stab at it if you can.
Thanks
Hey Guys,
This is my first post in a long time, however I figured I'd give it a shot since it can possibly be an opportunity for someone here.
I am looking for an Open Source MDM (Mobile Device Management) tool for android. Generally since my employer is interested in possibly creating one for our specific project needs.
I've been searching and haven't really come across anything so we are interested in hiring a "consultant" or developer whom has made apps or custom roms with MDM features, or has already created some form of MDM and can participate in an open source MDM project.
This is a great opportunity to participate in a project that WILL BE DEPLOYED out in the field to hundreds and eventually thousands of tablets.
If you are that person that can help, or know of someone please let me know.
Or if you know of an Open Source MDM solution already out there, that would be greatly appreciated as well.
My e-mail is [email protected]
Thanks,
-E
Open Source MDM (Mobile Device Management) tool for android
We are also looking for an Open Source MDM for Android. Thus far the only potential options I seem to be able to locate are OpenMEAP, and potentially Funambol (though its more carrier oriented these days).
Please let me know how you go as we may be interested in contributing.
Hello everybody,
like I guess quite a few people here, I develop for Android in my free time, and this is my second app. It's a finance tracker, hopefully an evolution to the well-known MoneyWise. I decided that I wanted a new one since, although MoneyWise is definitively useful, it's ugly and its usability is a little bit too cumbersome.
So, I made LBudget with the Material Design principles in my head as much as I could and, if any of you uses the Google+ app, you'll hopefully find the navigation relatively familiar.
The app is still in Beta phase (using the Google Play platform) and, because of the current condition of Android L, it will remain as such at least until a stable release is commercially released. Nevertheless, I would like to use the time until then for the app to be tested and improved. If you would like to contribute by installing it, you'll first need to follow the annoying Google Play standard procedure:
Join the testing community at https://plus.google.com/communities/117254163315407088886
Register as a test at https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.jorge.lbudget (use the same account with which you joined the testing community).
Download the app in the link that the aforementioned page provides once you become a tester.
For reporting bugs, requesting features, or such, I want to really encourage you to utilize the project GitHub issue tracker, but if you don't know how to use it just leave a comment and I will "port" it to GitHub.
Also, if you're interested in contributing but not using Android L yet or simply don't want to install the app, you can contribute to the translation project at https://crowdin.com/project/lbudget
Went to check this out, but it says I need a newer SDK version. I'm not on L, anyway to make it compatible with 4.4.4?
Sc4ryB3ar said:
Went to check this out, but it says I need a newer SDK version. I'm not on L, anyway to make it compatible with 4.4.4?
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Well, the app is compatible with L+, so understandably if you try to install in 4.4.4 you cannot. Probably it is feasible to adapt the app to 4.0+, but my intention was knowledgeably using only the new features of L to become familiar with it.
Hi Guys,
New here, but not to the ROM community. I would like to get a bit of feedback from devs and from the general public about this. I am part of a research project with my university that is looking to expand some of our project out into the open source community. Unfortunately we are no longer able to run the research lab anymore, but we would like to see some of our tools be used in the community. We've made several tools that allow us to gather extremely useful feedback about what happens during different running processes of the device that we think would be extremely useful and interesting for developers. We would like to see some of these tools used by the community, but I'd like to get some feedback first about these. Any information that one would like to know would be on our website https://phone-lab.org/. I will also be around to answer any questions that you guys may have about it.
Some of the things we would like to see open sourced would be our log gathering process. We use a centralized application to gather specified logs by tag from logcat and upload those logs to a backend that a developer can use to improve or fix a bug in their system. We also have modified logcat in android to have a more organized format for easier human readability. This is an example of only two of our tools.