Re: [android-developers] Is it legal to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use?

2012-10-28 Thread alex kyo
That's sounds like a good idea, Tim But I've retrieved the install URL with tokens, but it didn't work, is that right? On Sunday, October 28, 2012 6:28:24 AM UTC+9, strazzere wrote: Correct, you basically just need to request the proper auth tokens, then simulate the protocol being used

Re: [android-developers] Is it legal to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use?

2012-10-28 Thread alex kyo
Thanks Kevin I've used App Brain but it seems nothing to do with simulate a user clicking INSTALL Is there an other way to simulate the click? I am using webview in my app. On Saturday, October 27, 2012 11:41:54 AM UTC+9, Kevin TeslaCoil Apps wrote: I would guess that they simulate a user

Re: [android-developers] Is it legal to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use?

2012-10-27 Thread strazzere
Correct, you basically just need to request the proper auth tokens, then simulate the protocol being used the by Play store / web site. Tim Strazzere On Friday, October 26, 2012 7:41:54 PM UTC-7, Kevin TeslaCoil Apps wrote: I would guess that they simulate a user clicking INSTALL from the web

Re: [android-developers] Is it legal to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use?

2012-10-26 Thread alex kyo
Thanks for your reply*, *Kris My (3rd party)app was built to install apps on STOCK android via google play, What I did was link to Play store by an url like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fusepowered.google.jawsrevenge , and when user click INSTALL button the installation

Re: [android-developers] Is it legal to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use?

2012-10-26 Thread alex kyo
thanks for your reply, TreKing That's a question for a lawyer if I could afford one. On Friday, October 26, 2012 2:51:03 AM UTC+9, TreKing wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:30 AM, alex kyo kyokan...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Is it LEGAL to implement APK's silent installation for

Re: [android-developers] Is it legal to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use?

2012-10-26 Thread Mark Murphy
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:30 AM, alex kyo kyokanxuj...@gmail.com wrote: I am wondering if there is any way to install the app directly silently On a stock android without pushing a button. Fortunately, no, for obvious security reasons. the rival company, of course, they won't tell us how

Re: [android-developers] Is it legal to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use?

2012-10-26 Thread Kristopher Micinski
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:30 AM, alex kyo kyokanxuj...@gmail.com wrote: I am wondering if there is any way to install the app directly silently On a stock android without pushing a button. Fortunately, no, for

Re: [android-developers] Is it legal to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use?

2012-10-26 Thread Mark Murphy
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Kristopher Micinski krismicin...@gmail.com wrote: Or their company is actually TMobile... Oh, true. A device manufacturer can do this stuff without a problem. I was assuming that this was an SDK app, since this is a list for developing SDK apps, but that may not

Re: [android-developers] Is it legal to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use?

2012-10-26 Thread alex kyo
Thanks, Mark One thing I can definitely confirm is that they are not device manufacturer. Suppose there is a google account(*ga*) which contains several apps. My guess is that they might register a stock device with the *ga* by AccountManager and then call the sync api (I don't know exactly

Re: [android-developers] Is it legal to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use?

2012-10-26 Thread Kevin TeslaCoil Software
I would guess that they simulate a user clicking INSTALL from the web based Play Store. I believe this would be technically doable if they either had the user login or had the users Google password. Then the Play Store takes care of pushing the app to the device and installing it in the

[android-developers] Is it legal to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use?

2012-10-25 Thread alex kyo
Download and install apps from google play without prompt. I know there are only 2 ways to achieve that, sign the 3rd party app with a system signature or root the device. But I think both will cause security trouble and neither will be acceptable to the end user. My question is Is it LEGAL to

Re: [android-developers] Is it legal to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use?

2012-10-25 Thread TreKing
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:30 AM, alex kyo kyokanxuj...@gmail.com wrote: Is it LEGAL to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use? That's a question for a lawyer. - TreKing

Re: [android-developers] Is it legal to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use?

2012-10-25 Thread Kristopher Micinski
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:30 AM, alex kyo kyokanxuj...@gmail.com wrote: Download and install apps from google play without prompt. I know there are only 2 ways to achieve that, sign the 3rd party app with a system signature or root the device. But I think both will cause security trouble and