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other fake options: video resolution #103

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. take a low-res device (e.g. HTC Buzz)
2. search on the market
3. see the too short list

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I see only a few results, expecting more - especially the app I was searching 
for.

What version of the product are you using? On what ROM?
I'm using above mentioned device, latest ME, Android 2.1

Please provide any additional information below.
The thing is the market checks different things to filter the list (search for 
"market fix", which patches the market app for this). If it thinks your device 
is "too bad" for certain apps, it filters them out. Details are:

* the device ID must be known to the market
* the device must have a camera with autofocus
* the screen resolution is checked

The first two things are matched for most phones (except those just released, 
maybe), and thus are not that "high priority". But if some phone only has a 
low-res screen (as the HTC Buzz), certain apps will be filtered out. Faking a 
higher res would show them. Of course, some of them might really not be 
supported by the device - but most run fine (I tested this with some apps 
available on the market which were not shown on my device, by downloading the 
.apk from the developers site).

So would it be possible to have a list of screen resolutions to chose from and 
fake the selected? This list would probably hold no more than about 3 entries, 
I guess.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ferrett...@googlemail.com on 1 Oct 2010 at 4:37

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
This is an enhancement request and not a defect, I changed the type to 
enhancement.

Original comment by michel.racic on 3 Oct 2010 at 11:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Sure, that's correct. Sorry for that, but I could not figure out how to change 
this myself.

Original comment by ferrett...@googlemail.com on 3 Oct 2010 at 11:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I would love to see this enhancement. If there was a way to work around 
developers too lazy to list QVGA as a supported resolution in their 
applications' manifests, that would be brilliant for those with devices like 
the HTC Buzz and the Sony X10 Mini.

It is likely there will be more and more of these cheaper devices around in the 
future.

Is this possible?

Original comment by datajack...@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2010 at 9:40

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Such feature would need modification of build.props file to fake other devices.
If you have root, you can do it manually already by editing this file with some 
text editor on your phone.

Original comment by sbara...@gmail.com on 8 Jul 2011 at 4:58