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

[Stephen Watkin]

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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