Re: Single instance mode vs multiple instances in manifest spec

On 2013-04-23 10:22, John Lyle wrote:
> On 22/04/13 14:37, Janusz Majnert wrote:
>> On 2013-04-22 10:37, Marcos Caceres wrote:
>>> Does Tizen support running multiple instances of the same app? If
>>> yes, is the origin of those apps unique or it shared?
>> Currently in Tizen, user can only have one instance of an app running.
>> If they try to launch it again, then the already running instance will
>> be brought to the foreground.
>> If an app is used as an intent service/provider, it may happen that it
>> will be handling multiple requests at the same time, which means that
>> there will be multiple instances of the same application running. In
>> this case the origin is the same for all running instances.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> A follow-up question for both Tizen and FirefoxOS systems -
>
> Can devices have more than one version of the same application installed
> at the same time?  And can there be independent instances of each
> version running?  E.g., can I have version 0.1 and version 0.2 of
> app://example.com installed, and then run two instances of version 0.1
> and two instances of version 0.2 (making four total instance) at the
> same time?
In Tizen - no. The newer version will replace the older version.

> I'm trying to get the cardinality of entities right: for every installed
> application there may be multiple runtime instances.  Every installed
> application will have one origin.  But can two or more installed
> applications (not instances) have the *same origin*?
Again, in Tizen - no.

/Janusz

Received on Tuesday, 23 April 2013 08:29:19 UTC