• Novità dall’Android Market

    6 maggio 2009

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    Posted in: Android

    Da oggi sono disponibili alcune novità nel Market.

    Tra questa la possibilità di creare applicazioni rivolte esclusivamente al mercato italiano.

    Ecco l’email completa:180px-android_at_google

    Hello,

    I’m writing to let you know about several changes made to Android Market.

    We have added checkboxes in the publisher website at
    http://market.android.com/publish to target free apps for the following
    countries:  France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Portugal, Switzerland, and
    Ireland.  Please note that among the countries in this list, devices are
    currently available in France, Italy, and Spain, and devices will soon be
    available in the other markets.  You can target one or more countries by
    selecting the individual checkboxes or by choosing “All Current and Future
    Locations,” which will make your free apps appear to users in all
    countries where free apps are available.

    In the next couple weeks, we will add buyer support for priced apps in the
    following countries:  France, Italy, Spain, and Netherlands.  Also, we are
    finalizing the work to enable developers in Germany, Austria, Netherlands,
    France, and Spain to offer priced applications in the coming weeks.

    To help you better merchandise your apps to users in different markets, we
    continue to add local language support for app titles and descriptions.
    The complete set of languages that Android Market now supports is:
    English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Czech, and Polish.

    Finally, to better support Android-powered devices that may be running
    different versions of the platform, it is now necessary for all
    applications published in Android Market to indicate a minimum SDK version
    in the manifest file.  This applies to all new apps and upgrades to
    existing apps; apps currently in Market do not need to indicate a minimum
    SDK version until you publish an upgraded version.  If you were to use an
    Android 1.5 API in your app, you would need to set minSdkVersion
    accordingly (i.e., equal to ‘3′) so that Android Market won’t show your
    app to devices running an older version of the platform.  Apps using 1.5
    APIs will not run properly on phones running earlier versions of Android.
    See the following page for more detailed instructions on how to specify a
    minimum SDK version in your manifest:
    http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/versioning.html#minsdkversion.

    One note:  Android 1.5 is becoming available to devices, but in the near
    term some users will still be on devices running Android 1.1 due to the
    deployment schedule for new phones and update process for existing phones.
    Therefore, we recommend that you first focus on making sure your 1.1 app
    works properly on 1.5 devices (future proofing) before publishing a 1.5
    version.  We will provide more information when the majority of users have
    migrated their devices to Android 1.5 to help you with your app upgrade
    plans.  For more information on how to future proof your app, see the
    following blogpost:
    http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/future-proofing-your-apps.html.

    Thanks, and we look forward to continue working with you on Android
    Market.

    Eric Chu,
    Android Market

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