I would say you have a good case... perhaps there are already enough flashlights though.. you should just release your code to the open market and work on another great project!
:) whoo hoo! On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:57 AM, n.a <devuni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Guys and Google, > I'm the developer of the most popular flashlight application on the > Android Market - Tiny Flashlight + LED (over 6.5 million downloads, > top 50 in the overall applications ranking). > > Today I found that Google have deleted my developer account without > any notice and removed Tiny Flashlight from the market. I saw the news > that Google removed 10 malware apps from the Android Market ( > > http://phandroid.com/2011/06/14/google-removes-10-new-malware-apps-from-the-android-market/ > ) and decided to write you. > > Seems like I've been affected by this and I hope this will be resolved > soon, because I have invested a lot in Tiny Flashlight. For the one > year since Tiny Flashlight has been released, I've managed to create > one of the best android applications on the market. Although a > flashlight application seems easy to create, it's actually quite hard > on android, because the different hardware vendors have different > camera drivers and this requires a lot of workarounds just to start > the camera led / flash. This takes a lot of time and investment. In > the last 4 months alone I had to buy over 20 different android > devices, spend huge amounts of time finding a way to start the led on > these devices and making the whole process trouble-free for the user. > I've also gone a step further. Tiny Flashlight is one of the few > applications, which supports all android versions on the market - 1.5, > 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, and 3.1. It's the only flashlight > application, which still works on Motorola Quench / i1 / Backflip (all > Android 1.5). > > Tiny Flashlight has become my primary source of income and the > investment I've made is huge. Every single line of code has been > written by me (except the Admob, Millennial Media, and Flurry SDKs, > but I think they are respectable companies and would never allow any > malware in their distributed SDKs). > > I just can not afford to make the tiniest mistake with Tiny > Flashlight, because it's one of the top applications on the market and > I have over 4 million active users and I've invested my life into > this. > > I’m angry that Google never contacted me. They just deleted the whole > account. I hope that they will fix it soon, before I lose my users and > ranking position. > > http://www.appbrain.com/app/tiny-flashlight-led/com.devuni.flashlight > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
