Trying to find out how I can see if an app is suitable for Honeycomb on my GT7510? Are all shown apps ok?
It is a matter of trial and error to some degree. Also you can type "honey comb" in the market search window and find a more specific set of apps proper for GT 10.1.
Take a look at this webpage too:
tablified.com
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Ok, I have applied the market fix. Even went as far as editing the build line. While my market has expanded, I still can't bring up torque by Ian Hawkins. If I use the web service it shows but says it is not compatible with my device /gtablet/. I even copied the APk from my phone over to my tablet, while it does load it crashes within seconds. Can anyone help me?
I have searched the forum to no avail.
What rom are You using?
rom
I'm using the factory version
Hmm.. haven't ever seen it run on that. I have only seen it running on cm7 and vegan 5.1.
Have you looked into editing your build.prop file to expand market?
I edited the build prop with the mahimahi edit from the forum.
This should be the free apk
http://megaupload.com/?d=B07WAF8Y
I definitely wanted to purchase the app to show support for the developer. But all things considered, I will check out that link. I just wish the andriod market would work properly on my device. The market just recognizes my gtablet as "phone" and constantly says the apps I look at aren't compatible. Seems like my money isn't good enough for Google.
Hi
I'm looking to buy the "Scroll extreme" android tablet (from eBuyer) - it has ICS but it DOESNT have the marketplace (apparently it has to be licences by Google so it probably helps reduce the cost by not providing it)
I've heard that Marketplace can be installed using an APK download however, I dont know if anyone has actually tried or if its just an assumption.
Does anyone know if Marketplace can be installed on such a device and will it work OK?
I've read another (unrelated) post somewhere that implied it might not allow you to log in if the device is not registered - although its possible I just misinterpreted that.
Any help appreciated,
Thanks
Rob
Usually on non licensed tablets with stock rom, google market doesn't work. But acording to some forums the Scroll Extreme does come with google play, but it's hidden.
"You can access play store straight away out of the box. Just use search, type play and you will see the Play Store. Click that and you're there.
I used ESFilemanager to locate the Play Store then created a shortcut, so I have it on the desktop."
http://scrolltabletforum.co.uk/site/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=2426
You could try to flash gapps for ics
Seek the signature below the line
I purchased the Extreme last friday and mine came with Play store out of the box
purchase
if i may ask where did you purchase the scroll extreme from ?
Here Try one
Here try my market apk
Sorry for digging up and old post, but I was wondering if there was an answer to the original question in this thread. Is there a way to get google play store to work on unlicensed devices?
I recently purchased an Ematic Multi-Touch 7", and noticed it didn't have the play store. After transferring the apk through usb and installing it, I found that the app worked for a moment before shutting down with the message "Unfortunately, Google Play Store has stopped." After searching around a bit, I found out about the nature of the licensing issues, but no real solutions. I suppose I could try and find all of the apps I would normally want to use and side load them, but it would be nice to be able to avoid that and use the play store proper.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I thank you for your time and consideration.
Am I missing something here? App is not compatible with some of your devices.
Htc Evo- check
Transformer Tablet- no check
I need to understand the developer side of this coin. I have been trying to persuade Jawbone to update their android app "Jawbone Companion" to support my tablet. I don't know, but I assume their would be a publisher option in Google Play to add or delete supported devices so that they cannot be installed on those from the Play store. For example, I had to go to the website to find the app because search shows no results on the tablet.
It's a bluetooth headset. It supports 2.1+edr. App supported on Android OS 4.0, OS 2.3 and select OS 2.2 phones. Transformer tf300 has bluetooth. It supports 3.0+edr. It has ICS and is certainly more capable than a 2.2 phone.
Sooo the only difference I see from this side is a bigger screen. I have emailed at least 3 app makers that I use frequently and they just keep saying it's not tablet supported. So do they just have to add devices to some file that cross checks with Google Play or is the code for my tablet so drastically different that they would have to write a whole new app for tablets?
A technical explanation link of the whole developer process regarding this would be nice.
Update to OP
I have found a method of downloading apk files in the Chrome browser with the APK Downloader extension. It only works with Chrome and I logged into my wife's account, did a quick search for my apps in question, then proceeded to download them to pc by making play think it was sending the apk to my wife's "supported" phone. Then I manually transferred the apks to my "unsupported" tablet where they are now running fine, no errors and no resolution problems.
I have emailed the developers of these apps and they have blown me off by saying that tablets in general are not supported, I emailed them all back telling them their apps were working fine and I didn't understand why they couldn't have allowed me to just download it the easy way.
So are they just being lazy? This just reinforces my reasoning that the phone and tablet are about the same and don't require any more coding than any other app that has problems on certain phones. Seems to me as long as the resolution is high enough and it allows auto rotation that any phone app should run on a tablet, and I don't see why they all keep telling me apps are not supported.
Until then I guess I'll just get my apps the way I described.
yap the apkdownloader would be the way i recomended to you =)
dunno why they dont support tablets
in some cases u dont have to understand them
feel lucky u find a way to make it work
So, I've switched back to a stock-based version of ICS after bit rot got the better of my CM10 runs. Simply puterformance worsened after the installation of my hundreds of apps and games.
Specifically, I'm running black star. What I know is as follows:
Games that were available--as well as apps that were available....games that I know are compatible with our device-monster Life, to name one--give us the "this app is incompatible with your device" tag on the play store when in a UCLF6 ROM, but are perfectly compatible. The apps and games install and run perfectly when side loaded, or when running a CM or other AOSP based build, and I'm able to install them from the Play Store, and update them without error.
Apps which require a up-to-date client, are virtually impossible o play with consistency, which is a issue worthy of research and fixing on its own. But it also means that I have to find APKs through many sites which may, or may not be unscrupulous.
So...why is this? I've searched the build.prop, looking for a case where the dev might have miss typed something, but I see no errors. I also remember a thread from way-back-when ago, that proved worthy of a sticky....the "change your XXX to XXX and be able to install many more apps and games" deal. I'm not sure, but I think it was a build.prop edit.
Does anyone have/remember a solution to/for this? Being as it is, XDA search either didn't like my truncated searches and methods, or read them too literally. Either way, the results either weren't there, or they were, buried on page three-thousand-two-hundred-and-forty-six-point-three-one-four, or the were invisible results under page 4 of 4 in my more specific searches, which applied a more fine-toothed comb.
I apologize for the format, as I'm typing this on my tablet, from the XDA HD app.
Sent from my Transformer Pad using XDA Premium HD app
Both of the NFL streaming apps work fine on my Nexus 7, however I want to use them on a different device (AFTV). I loaded them on and had issues with both.
com.gotv.nflgamecenter.us.lite
There is a 'provider login' button that is missing from the settings tab.
com.neulion.android.tablet.nfl.wnfln
When opened on my tablet it immediately asks me to login with my provider account, on the AFTV it brings up a different screen not giving me that option.
My questions are:
How do these apps know what device they are being run on? Is it grabbing the info from build.prop (I tried editing it to change the product info, didn't have success)
Is there a way to spoof my device information to that app? Or, would decompiling the app and looking for the check be the best course of action?
Has anyone had success in getting around these types of issues previously? I searched and came up empty handed.