System of modules and addons

Many applications in the market offer to download addons as a paid version and after installation they simply add functionality, but are not listed in the installed programs and do not hang in the processes. Question: how to implement such a system of addons and the .apk itself, which unlocks something in the application, but does not install itself (in many cases, it still downloads content for playback).

Examples.

More examples.

  • Application with a set of sounds.
  • Add-ons that download sounds and images and then unlock them in .in the app

I found a check for the installed "unlock": Sharing code. How to make a check for its installation, now I know. But here's how to make this unlock itself, so that it does not appear in the menu and processes during installation?

Author: Nicolas Chabanovsky, 2011-03-10

1 answers

The solution came to my mind when I was reading an English-language book. Who cares, in the manifest file, the category should look like this

<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />

Then the application will not be displayed in the menu, and you can use it for various checks on the installation of this application from other applications.

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Author: AndroidDev, 2011-03-13 17:48:03