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i agree. if you don't want to post a link, can you please send it to people that need it directly?

Posted 2 years ago

Hmm, almost all persons seem to be happy with Google Android Market, except me and fedesna.
I can't get any applications via GAM and usually use http://andappstore.com/ .
I hope I could use RTM Android app on my gadget w/o GAM. :(

Posted 2 years ago

Someone from RTM,

Let me elaborate on the situation.

Google has the Android Market Place which gives people access to apps on Android. The problem is that, while Android is open source and is appearing on many devices, the Market Place (along with Gmail, and any other Google apps) is a proprietary application, and is only available on Android devices that offer the "Google Experience." The are devices that Google has partnered with a cell phone carrier to release (eg. T-Mobile G, myTouch 3G, Motorola Droid on Verizon). Google bundles these phones with whatever apps they've written.

I have an device (Creative Zii Egg) that offers Android but not the "Google Experience". There are many others (eg. Archos 5A), and many more will be popping up, especially in 2010 as Android is adopted by more companies.

Until Google decides to make the Market Place available for everyone, we can't use your app, unless you make the ".apk" file available for everyone, or post it to one of the alternative app stores. The RTM app is designed for my device yet I can't use it, not because it doesn't work or because I don't have a Pro account, because the further step is to have one of the few Android devices that Google has had the time and resources to design and do QA for. I've had to use Astrid for RTM because the apk is available on their site.

Please make RTM available somewhere else and let me support you and get my RTM pro account back, now that I use my Android device to be productive.

Other stores:
www.andappstore.com
www.mobentoo.com

Can you give us a response on this? Thanks

Posted 2 years ago

Thanks kwasi.nti
You explained what I want to say in details.
(writing long post in English is tough task for me.)

And actually one of my gadget is Creative Zii EGG.
I'm happy to have found the guy who have it :-)

Posted 2 years ago

At this time it's only possible to download the app via the Android Market, but we'll be looking into other ways that we can make it available in the future.

In the meantime, sorry for the inconvenience.

Posted 2 years ago

Dear RTM,

I second the above posters. I have an Archos 5 Internet Tablet which currently does not provide access to the Android Market. Instead it natively uses Appslib (www.appslib.com), whilst of course having access to sites like andappstore.

I am a big fan of RTM and would upgrade to Pro to get the Android client, but until it is available outside of the Android Market there is no point.

Posted 2 years ago