[Liverpool] Android version and apps availability on the app market

[Sebastian Arcus]

Hi Ste,

Thanks for that.

Sebastian


On 18/07/11 18:10, Stephen Watkin wrote:
>   Hi Sebastian,
>
> As I understand it, what is or isn't shown in the marketplace for
> android devices is governed by a file in the application package called
> 'AndroidManifest.xml'. More info here:
> http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest-intro.html
>
> If you can get hold of the .apk file, you can see for yourself -
> although you'll need to decode the xml file because for some reason they
> store it mangled in the .apk. 5 seconds of Googling resulted in a perl
> script [1] that appeared to do the job:
> http://android-random.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/axml2xml/axml2xml.pl
>
> Ste
>
>
> On 18/07/11 17:52, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
>> Thanks to everybody who answered.
>>
>> Anybody knows if the, effectively, system requirements for each app
>> are accessible in some way? Is there a way to check what resolution,
>> OS version etc. each app is expecting? Or is it a bit of "test and
>> guess" kind of thing?
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
>>
>> On 18/07/11 16:47, Jonathan Archer wrote:
>>> I can confirm that those 2 apps are both available in the Android Market
>>> on my phone, I'm running the latest Cyanogen mod which runs Android
>>> 2.3.4 so you may be right when you say that Android 2.1 may just not be
>>> high enough level to run them.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 16:40 +0100, Gareth Llewellyn wrote:
>>>> It could also be market filters such as screen size (MDPI vs HDPI etc)
>>>> OS version, region, language etc.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The new tesco app for example shows up on all my phones and on my PC
>>>> but won't show up on a Honeycomb tablet :/
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Andrew Bates<oscillik at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> quick response since I'm not home, but most immediate thing
>>>> that pops to mind is the the phone is most likely not actually
>>>> truly stock Android, and could likely be a vendor specific ROM
>>>> that has either been modified by the manufacturer or the
>>>> mobile network you got the phone on.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 18, 2011 4:29 PM, "Sebastian Arcus"<shop at open-t.co.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Hello all,
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm trying to install Openvpn Installer and Openvpn Settings
>>>> apps from
>>>> > the Android Market on a ZTE Racer with stock rom. Although
>>>> they show on
>>>> > a pc at market.android.com - they don't show in the market
>>>> app on the
>>>> > phone. I can still install them manually, by going on the
>>>> phone to the
>>>> > developer's website.
>>>> >
>>>> > My questions are:
>>>> >
>>>> > 1. Is this because of the version of Android on the phone
>>>> (it runs 2.1)?
>>>> > I would have though 2.1 is relatively recent.
>>>> > 2. If it's not the Android version, is there some other
>>>> criteria the
>>>> > Market app is using to filter out entries on the phone?
>>>> > 3. Is there a way to tell what are the requirements for the
>>>> app or why
>>>> > it gets excluded in the results shown on the phone?
>>>> >
>>>> > If anybody with an Android phone has a minute to see if it
>>>> shows in the
>>>> > market app on their phone - I'd be glad if they report back
>>>> here with
>>>> > the Android version.
>>>> >
>>>> > Hope you are all keeping well.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> >
>>>> > Sebastian
>>>> >
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