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* changes: docs: update the publishing guide to revise the updating section bug 1755357
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ page.title=Publishing Your Applications
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<ol>
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<li><a href="#overview">Publishing on Android Market</a>
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<ol>
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<li><a href="#marketupgrade">Publishing Upgrades on Android Market</a>
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<li><a href="#marketupgrade">Publishing Updates on Android Market</a>
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<li><a href="#marketintent">Using Intents to Launch the Market Application</a></li>
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</ol></li>
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<!--
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@@ -89,9 +89,11 @@ server when you upload the application.</p>
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<li>Your application must be signed with a cryptographic private key whose
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validity period ends after <span style="color:red">22 October 2033</span>. </li>
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<li>Your application must define both an <code>android:versionCode</code> and an
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<code>android:versionName</code> attribute in the <code><manifest></code>
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<code>android:versionName</code> attribute in the
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<a
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href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/manifest-element.html"><code><manifest></code></a>
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element of its manifest. The server uses the <code>android:versionCode</code> as
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the basis for identifying the application internally and handling upgrades, and
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the basis for identifying the application internally and handling updates, and
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it displays the <code>android:versionName</code> to users as the application's
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version.</li>
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<li>Your application must define both an <code>android:icon</code> and an
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@@ -100,58 +102,24 @@ element of its manifest.</li>
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</ol>
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</div>
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<h3 id="marketupgrade">Publishing Upgrades on Android Market</h3>
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<h3 id="marketupgrade">Publishing Updates on Android Market</h3>
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<p>The beta version of Android Market does not support notifying your users when
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you publish a new version of your application. This capability will be
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added soon, but currently the user must independently initiate download of an
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upgraded application. When you publish an upgrade, you can assist users by
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notifying them that the upgrade is available and giving them a way to download
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the upgraded application from Android Market.</p>
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<p>At any time after publishing an application on Android Market, you can upload
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and publish an update to the same application package. When you publish an
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update to an application, users who have already installed the
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application will automatically receive a notification that an update is
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available for the application. They can then choose to update the application
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to the latest version.</p>
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<p>Here is a suggested way of tracking installed application versions and
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notifying users that an upgrade is available:</p>
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<p>Before uploading the updated application, be sure that you have incremented
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the <code>android:versionCode</code> and <code>android:versionName</code>
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attributes in the <a
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href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/manifest-element.html"><code><manifest></code></a>
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element of the manifest file. Also, the package name must be the same and the
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.apk must be signed with the same private key. If the package name and signing
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certificate do <em>not</em> match those of the existing version, Market will
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consider it a new application and will not offer it to users as an update.</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Have your app occasionally check in with a web-service that you're
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running. This web service should return two values: the latest available
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version number for the application (corresponding to
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<code>android:versionCode</code>) and a URI string that your application
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can later send in an Intent, to launch Market and search for the
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upgraded application for the user.
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<p>The URI that your web service returns should be properly formatted to
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search Android Market for your upgraded application. See
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<a href="#marketintent">Using Intents to Launch the Market Application</a>
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for more information. The URI should specify the upgraded
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application's package name as the query parameter, since the package name
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is guaranteed to be unique on Android Market. The URI format for the
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package name search is: </p>
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<p><code>http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:<package></code> or
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<br><code>market://search?q=pname:<package></code></p>
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</li>
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<li>Your application can then compare its own version number against
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that retrieved. If the retrieved value is greater, your application can
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show a dialog informing the user that a new version is available. The
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dialog can offer buttons to begin the download or cancel. </li> <li>If
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the user clicks the button to begin the download, your application can
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call startActivity() using the ACTION_VIEW Intent, passing the URI
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received from your web service. The Intent launches the Market
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application on the device and initiates an immediate search on the
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Android Market site, based on the query parameters in the URI. When the
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result is displayed, the user can view the details of the upgraded
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application and begin the download.
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<p>Note that, because the URI string is received from your web
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service and not hard-coded into your application, you can easily change
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the Market launch behaviors whenever needed, without
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having to change your application. </p></li></ol>
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<p>For more information about URIs you can pass to the Market application at
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launch, see <a href="#marketintent">Using Intents to Launch the Market
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Application</a>, below.</p>
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<h3 id="marketintent">Using Intents to Launch the Market Application on
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a Device</h3>
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@@ -163,7 +131,7 @@ download/install applications.</p>
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<p>You can launch the Market application from another Android
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application by sending an Intent to the system. You might want to do
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this, for example, to help the user locate and download an upgrade to an
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this, for example, to help the user locate and download an update to an
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installed application, or to let the user know about related
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applications that are available for download. </p>
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