Motorola Droid Bug – Publishing Livewall paper on Android Market

Photo of the Day wasn’t showing up on the market no matter what I tried.  It turns out that Moto Droid /Milestone has a bug where it thinks it dosn’t support live wall papers.  (See here and here too)

What your supposed to do is have this in your applications manifest if your app requires a live wallpaper:

<uses-feature android:name=”android.software.live_wallpaper” />

Unfortanlty the Moto Droid has a bug and dosn’t support it, so if you place it in the manifist, it dosn’t showup in the market for all the orginal droid users out there.

You might think its as simple as removing the line and just using the uses sdk tag, but that dosn’t work because not all the 2.1 phones support live wallpapers.  For some reason the droid eris and Samsung Moment don’t.  Crazy.  What where they thinking.  When I think of 2.1 I think of live wallpapers!

-James

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 Android, Mobile Monetization, Photo of the Day

2 Comments to Motorola Droid Bug – Publishing Livewall paper on Android Market

  • Chris says:

    Just wondering how you overcame this issue? I’m having similar issues trying to find my live wallpapers on the market with my Samsung Galaxy S although I do see many others out there. Any tips would be much appreciated, thanks

    • admin says:

      What I did is removed the node from the manifest.xml file, and then in the market I put a note that your phone had to support live wallpapers to use this live wallpaper.

      Also sometimes, you just need to go to settings, manage applications, and then force close the market, and clear all its caches.

      -James

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