[...] Analytics is heating up. Google launched their own Analytics for Android applications last week and today announced they had acquired AdMob. Flurry has also [...]

Very good point. This is a very useful tool for developers to have under their belt, but the last thing they want is for put people to be put off from installing their apps because of a misleading warning.

Most definitely. And it should be separate from the Full Internet permission so that developers can include it without having to ask for full internet access which, when we are talking about collecting data, is a scary permission to grant.

if google makes this a feature of the android SDK, it will definitely be required to add in the manifest.

Curiously, in the original announcement of the Android Market ( http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/android-market-user-driven-content.html ), Google had alluded to a detailed dashboard and analytics for Android developers. I guess that never happened.

The important thing here is that per the terms of this service, one MUST disclose that they may be collecting anonymous data. I am not sure if the other services also require this but I can tell you that I haven’t ever seen an app disclose it. I have, however, seen several instances of people incredibly upset to find out that Flurry (specifically, but I am sure the others too) was being included in apps without disclosure.

Now, they need a similar service for tracking stats on the Android Market.

Nice move, Google! This can only result in better apps.