Does Ministro put people off installing Necessitas apps?

[Willy Gardiol]

Yes i can cofirm from my experience that users are put off my ministro. 
It does work for savvy people but the average joe simply cancel and 
uninstall. More, it does not make sense for small apps, just for big 
ones.

If i where the user i would frankly abort and search for a different 
app. At the same time linking many megabytes of static libs just for one 
app is very stuopid the same, so i gues sministro is the less pain at 
the moment.

Would you download 50mb app for a simple game? I would not. Would you 
install ministro for the same app? Maybe not, the same. But maybe you 
have it already installed for some reason and then you don't have the 
issue.

I agree Ministro is a very serious problem, but it does solve an even 
worse one.

At least until Qt aren't shipped with stock android :)

Il 17.11.2012 00:56 Simon Pickles ha scritto:
> Hi!
>
> Firstly, I am very excited to discover Necessitas. It looks
> incredible.
>
> I love Android, not Java. I love C++ and Qt!
>
> My question arose after reading the description of how apps built
> using Necessitas work:
> http://necessitas.kde.org/necessitas/ministro.php
>
> They need to install a service then download libs, etc, etc.
>
> Does that not put users off?
>
> They should be able to download my app and go! The dependencies 
> should
> be built in.
>
> What are other developers experiences?
>
> Thanks
>
> Si

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