1) Piracy: Don't know how worried you should be yet. Unlike some here,
I am not of the opinion that piracy will actually increase my sales,
nor do I believe that 0% of the freeloaders would ever pay for my app.
But despite this philosophical leaning, I've never gotten around to
doing LVL, proguard
Eclipse works for signing your apps just fine.
As for Piracy, I guess, don't worry for it right away. May be after a few
updates, or when your app gets very very popular, and people would be
tempted to pirate it. Till then, I guess you are safe.
-Kumar Bibek
http://techdroid.kbeanie.com
On Tue,
You forgot to mention if your app is free, paid, or ad-supported. One
way to handle the Lite versus Full version issue is to include ad-
support in the Lite version and no adds in the paid version.
As for piracy, consider how much time you spent to develop the app. If
you think it's unique and it
2) Building two products (with different package names) is a bit of a
dance, but worth it once you have it set up.
Take a look here for one solution:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/270cbc77091e5bfd/
and here for a simpler-looking one:
How do I know I'm losing sales to piracy though? Aside from Googling
it once in a while to look for apks?
On Oct 5, 2:04 pm, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote:
Eclipse works for signing your apps just fine.
As for Piracy, I guess, don't worry for it right away. May be after a few
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:43 PM, JoelDuggan joeldug...@gmail.com wrote:
How do I know I'm losing sales to piracy though?
Strap in some analytics and compare your unique user counts against what you
see in Google Checkout.
I thought of that but also thought of reasons to not do it.
1) I never like it when an app that does not NEED net access asks for
it. My app would be in that boat.
2) Tracking installations is a bit creepy for a simple Live
Wallpaper.
3) I don't have a server infrastructure to speak of. This
If the application is free, does it matter if it gets distributed outside of
Market?
I'd say, get your feet wet, see if you keep enjoying Android, and maybe
you'll have another application idea that's worth pursuing at next level -
LVL, free/paid version, the whole works.
--
Kostya Vasilyev --
The ADT Wizard for signing works, yes, but it is a little confusing:
it phrases the prompt as if asking for the same password for both the
command-line -keypass option and the command-line -storepass options
(which the reader should read up on but not use).
Now in fact, as long as you choose a
For the demo/full you can use a ContentProvider as the unlock key. If
they have the ContentProvider on the system, then it loads
preferences_registered.xml and if not then
preferences_unregistered.xml. In the preference XML you can disable
the inputs you don't want in the free version.
I also
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