[android-developers] Followup questions about detecting install / first launch

I'm still getting my head around the API and can use a check if I'm
understanding this right.

On 3/15/2012 6:48 AM, Mark Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:06 AM, giles ian<gilesian.513@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I need to execute some code on app install event. How do i do it.
> You don't.

Ok, I understand that ACTION_PACKAGE_INSTALL wasn't implemented. There
is no broadcast to the app when its package is installed. Doesn't the
installer from Market^H^H^H^H^H^H Play start the app as the default? I
haven't published an app as yet so I'm not sure if it's configurable
from the deployment console.

>> After some googleing i found there is no direct way. So which is the best
>> work around for that.
> You do the work when the user first runs your app.

API 12 gave us ACTION_PACKAGE_FIRST_LAUNCH and
ACTION_MY_PACKAGE_REPLACED. I've been writing to 8 and piggybacked my
first run code to the DB helper, since what I'm doing needs a DB. I
suppose it's easy enough to store an already ran flag in preferences and
check that.

What are the techniques people have been using to manage this? Storing
static versioning and checking it? Using the manifest versioning data?
This may seem like a lame question, but curiosity has gotten the better
of me. I guess what I'm asking is there are a lot of ways to skin this
cat, what are people doing?

Is it worth using the broadcasts and maintaining your own state to
provide backward compatibility or is everyone saying bag that and just
rolling their own?

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