[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-12-07 Thread elizabeth talbot
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[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-10-26 Thread Mark Carter
On some Motorola devices, I get an NPE when calling LicenseChecker.onDestroy(): android.os.MessageQueue.enqueueMessage:183 android.os.Looper.quit:173 com.android.vending.licensing.LicenseChecker.onDestroy:281 Example device: Motorola CLIQ / DEXT model: MB200 display: CUPCAKE.1.4.8 Also:

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-09-05 Thread Lance Nanek
how a pirated app can be updated 5 minutes after a submission ? I actually have seen a repeatable case where the Market app will start tracking an app as if it were purchased when it wasn't. Back when my G1 was running Android 1.5, I had one of my paid apps installed already, then tried to buy

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-09-03 Thread Droid
The sample App (android-sdk-windows\market_licensing\sample) red lines on : import com.android.vending.licensing.AESObfuscator; import com.android.vending.licensing.LicenseChecker; import com.android.vending.licensing.LicenseCheckerCallback; import

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-09-03 Thread Droid
Oh, OK, found it now. I have to reference the library project to get rid of import red squiggles. On Sep 3, 11:15 am, Droid rod...@gmail.com wrote: The sample App (android-sdk-windows\market_licensing\sample) red lines on : import com.android.vending.licensing.AESObfuscator; import

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-09-03 Thread pilot.a...@gmail.com
Have you had a look here? http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/licensing.html Greets Nicholas On 3 Sep., 12:15, Droid rod...@gmail.com wrote: The sample App (android-sdk-windows\market_licensing\sample) red lines on : import com.android.vending.licensing.AESObfuscator; import

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-09-01 Thread Mike Hearn
In a nutshell, what I'm hoping LVL can grow into is a system that packages license verification in a way that is really really hard to remove.  It seems like we've got half of that equation nicely under way with LVL in its current form. The sort of anti-piracy system you're after is

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-28 Thread Nicolas Thibaut
I have implemented the LVL to send event on private webservices each time the market respond an NOT ALLOWED. Five minutes after the submission to android market, some events were throwed. How can this be possible ? how a pirated app can be updated 5 minutes after a submission ? On 27 août,

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-27 Thread String
I suggest you start a new thread for this issue; this sticky topic is better used for generalized discussion of LVL, not debugging of individual issues. String On Aug 26, 5:31 am, Feelsocial feelsocial.andr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi String , i have uploaded and saved my new licensed version 2 of

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-26 Thread keyeslabs
Had time to take a look at this raw data. You can see results here if you're interested. Some things surprised me: http://bit.ly/bSaoBe. On Aug 25, 1:46 pm, keyeslabs keyes...@gmail.com wrote: Um there is a culture of piracy *everywhere*. :} If you are saying that because you think most

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-26 Thread Feelsocial
HI Trevor Johns. i am testing in AVD of froyo 2.2 (Google API) and login with my market account in google account. The question is that when i changed the my app version from 1 to 2, google licensing server not allowing me to use app. Where when i again change it to 2 from 1, its allowin me to use

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Carl Whalley carl.whal...@googlemail.comwrote: I'm curious about something regarding signing. If someone does as this hack shows and patches the apk, they need to resign the new build. If they then put this version out and its widely distributed, can't Google

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:20 PM, keyeslabs keyes...@gmail.com wrote: LVL is flawed in the same ways that AAL (and other similar approaches) is flawed. Google could do better, and I hope that they will. Obfuscation isn't really going to do much to improve the situation. What is really needed

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Mark Carter
One thing that would help would be to remove the dependency on the Android Market app and open up the licensing system to support sales outside of the Android Market. The aim here is for devs to have a simple way to support Android devices that don't have the Market app, not to avoid the 30% cut.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Mark Carter mjc1...@googlemail.comwrote: One thing that would help would be to remove the dependency on the Android Market app and open up the licensing system to support sales outside of the Android Market. The aim here is for devs to have a simple way to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Mark Carter
On 25 August 2010 10:31, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Er I was referring to helping protect apps against piracy. :} I would hope LVL supporting more devices should help against piracy ;) On 25 August 2010 10:31, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: And as far as

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Carl Whalley
That's clearer, thanks. Presumably if you upload apps hacked this way to the Market, your account will get pulled. And since this is the only way of getting apps into the Market it remains safe? On Aug 25, 8:36 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Carl

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Hearn
LVL is flawed in the same ways that AAL (and other similar approaches) is flawed.  Google could do better, and I hope that they will. I think it's wrong to focus on what Google could or could not do here. Did you read my reply to your original mail? If so what did you think of it? All copy

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread keyeslabs
I don't completely buy the assertion that PR wasn't part of the equation in designing, announcing, blogging, and writing press releases about LVL. Piracy is one of the biggest thorns in the side of Android at the moment. If Google doesn't recognize that as both a technical AND a PR problem,

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread keyeslabs
All copy protection systems have two parts - something they bind to, and the obfuscation that makes it harder to rip that binding out. This is basically correct, if you assume that things like encryption are bundled under the umbrella of obfuscation. So there are obviously two ways copy

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Mark Carter mjc1...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes, I want a simple way to reach out to a market that is likely to be tens (hundreds?) of millions of users in a couple of years' time. I see lots of tablets out there that don't run Android Market but run my app

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:13 AM, keyeslabs keyes...@gmail.com wrote: Again, my contention is that something stronger than obfuscation is needed to lock the APK down. OS-level APK encryption support in addition to license verification. I would like to see us get to the point that users must

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:25 AM, keyeslabs keyes...@gmail.com wrote: I don't completely buy the assertion that PR wasn't part of the equation in designing, announcing, blogging, and writing press releases about LVL. Piracy is one of the biggest thorns in the side of Android at the moment.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
25.08.2010 21:04, Dianne Hackborn пишет: If there are other suggestions that will actually make things harder without doing that, I would certainly like to hear them. Um, make the Market App side of LVL check that the application making LVL calls is signed with the same key as the .apk

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread keyeslabs
Sorry if things are coming off that way Dianne. I'm passionate about this topic (obviously), but I only admire and respect you (in particular) and the Android team in general. You've saved my butt more than once. :) I'm invested here. I'm all in on Android and success of the platform matters

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread strazzere
I'm not sure how this would make code modification impossible? You patch the application, make it always return a yes, it was ok to the licensing service inside the apk. Application then requests authentication, it fails, failure comes to application which still continues to say yes, it was ok.

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread keyeslabs
Yeah there we are. As far as I can see, the next step in preventing piracy is to not allow users to install apps outside of Market at all. We're not going to do that. That's not what I was picturing. Isn't there some way that we could do both? Apps downloaded from market could be encrypted

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread keyeslabs
Um there is a culture of piracy *everywhere*. :} If you are saying that because you think most people are pirating Android apps... I think your perception of things is probably pretty off. I know lots of people who have Android devices, and none of them even think of turning on the option

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Michael MacDonald
Encrypting the .apk is like forward-locking; it is easily defeated on rooted phones. On 08/25/10 13:33, keyeslabs wrote: That's not what I was picturing. Isn't there some way that we could do both? Apps downloaded from market could be encrypted and only decrypted by the OS when used (in

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Mark Carter
How about allowing the dev to specify response int values in the Dev Console? The recent crack script would (probably) not be able to work out which code means what. Therefore, a pirate would have to crack each app individually. That's right isn't it? The automation only works because LICENSED

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread keyeslabs
Isn't that only because the APK gets decrypted and written to disk as opposed to only being done in transient memory as the application is launched? There's an application startup overhead obviously to decrypting the APK on-the-fly, but seems like a much higher bar than just cp

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Frank Weiss
Maybe this is a dumb question, but what are some ROI benchmarks for piracy prevention (for Android apps)? For example, if a publisher spends X dollars on piracy prevention (however effective it may be) the revenue goes up (or down) by Y dollars. Just curious if piracy prevention is more

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Tim, Removing or stubbing calls to licensing service inside Market App is difficult, since those calls use encrypted responses. This is not trivial to mess with. The LVL library and the application, or the communication between them, is the easier point of attack. In fact, the original

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Eric F
I agree and I don't see how people are missing this valuable point you make Mark. Currently we are at: crackers must modify the program code to allow piracy From here there are two ways to make piracy more difficult: A) Make secure, non-rooted phones reject apps so that even a cracked app won't

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Feelsocial
Hi String , i have uploaded and saved my new licensed version 2 of my application on market. And testing on my emulator but its still not allowing. My version 2 is still not published? Moreover, application licensed version 1 was running fine.Help me plzz.. Thanks, On Aug 21, 2:29 pm, String

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-24 Thread keyeslabs
Seems like I was unfortunately very right on this prediction. Just off by a few days :). LVL is flawed in the same ways that AAL (and other similar approaches) is flawed. Google could do better, and I hope that they will. Obfuscation isn't really going to do much to improve the situation. What

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-24 Thread Carl Whalley
I'm curious about something regarding signing. If someone does as this hack shows and patches the apk, they need to resign the new build. If they then put this version out and its widely distributed, can't Google see the certificate used to resign it, compare with the original and just revoke the

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-21 Thread Feelsocial
Hi all, I am facing the problem in licensing of my old published paid apps. Basically i have paid app which is published by version code 1. I implemented the license code on it, it working fine to me. Licensing server giving the response or allow that you can use it. But once i changed version

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-21 Thread String
I think you need to upload an APK with versioncode=2 to your Market console. You don't need to publish it, but you do need to upload and save that version before LVL will give a correct response for it. String On Aug 21, 9:15 am, Feelsocial feelsocial.andr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-21 Thread ahmed jabir
Thx String 4 reply. I will try your recomendation . I will upload my new updated version app on market but not publish it. And then test, the licensing server response. I hope its will work fine to me... On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 2:29 PM, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.comwrote: I think you

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-21 Thread Hossein Kelidari
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[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-21 Thread neptune2000
Do you obfuscate the URLs that contact the Android Market Licensing server? If you do not, the first thing that the crackers will do is replace your server URLs with bogus ones with a a hex editor, and your whole system is dead in the water. Please advise. On Jul 27, 1:53 pm, Trevor Johns

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-21 Thread Bob Kerns
Um, no. You should read up on public key cryptography. Their substitute server will not work, because it will not have the proper private key corresponding to the expected certificate. So to get started, they'll have to also replace the public certificate that it's expecting. That would be in the

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-18 Thread Andrei
I put license check in my app and wanted to test it I use device with myem...@gmail.com From documentation This response will be sent to devices using myem...@gmail.com or the Test accounts listed above for applications you have uploaded to Market. Additionally, this account (but not the Test

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-08 Thread mp6800
Perhaps, but you didn't answer my question. Anybody else? Also, in the included sample app, the license check is triggered during onCreate. This means that when I click Buy App, go to the market, then immediately hit the back button, it goes back to the app and doesn't check again (at least not

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-06 Thread gb105
As stated earlier obfuscating the app doesn't help much. It's easy to find the license check in the byte code and change it, so the app is not really protected. There is still much work left for the developer to find a solution to prevent the app from working if it is not signed with the original

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-04 Thread Mike Hearn
On Jul 31, 11:21 pm, keyeslabs keyes...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking as someone who has traveled this road before with my own implementation of basically the same approach, obfuscation will be critical.  With AAL, it took about three days for someone to crack the app. There are various ways to

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-04 Thread mp6800
Will there eventually be a way to obfuscate automatically during .apk export in eclipse? The ant method looks relatively easy to setup, but I'd like to know if this is coming. (Especially since it's /strongly recommended/ in the docs) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-03 Thread Trevor Johns
And even if you skip the request refund step, we'll see a large number of license checks for a single account in our logs. So, not only can we disable that account, but we'll also know who was responsible. :P -- Trevor Johns Google Developer Programs, Android http://developer.android.com On

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-03 Thread James W
Thanks, guys. Of course, my UK bank accounts are currently pointing to my HK address, but I guess I could change them back, or open another UK based account. Anyway, I will let my vent stand on behalf of everyone else in the world who doesn't have that option! Hate to say it, but if Apple can do

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-03 Thread Mark Carter
On a slightly different note - in case anyone was wondering...if a user has paid for an app and then inserts a sim card from a non-paid app country (so that he can no longer see paid apps on the Market), the LVL still correctly returns that the user is licensed. I was expecting this, but its good

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-03 Thread Tomáš Hubálek
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:17 AM, James W jpbwebs...@gmail.com wrote: Hate to say it, but if Apple can do it, why can't Google...? Google don't want? Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-03 Thread andreas.walt...@googlemail.com
On Jul 31, 11:21 pm, keyeslabs keyes...@gmail.com wrote: ... someone to crack the app.  The process looks something like this:  decompile the apk using a freely available open source tool, find the code that invokes the licensing check, skip it, recompile and repackage the apk. Isn't there is

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-03 Thread Mark Carter
As soon as you request a refund then the license server will return NOT_LICENSED for that Google account. On 3 August 2010 12:37, andreas.walt...@googlemail.com andreas.walt...@googlemail.com wrote: On Jul 31, 11:21 pm, keyeslabs keyes...@gmail.com wrote: ... someone to crack the app. The

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-02 Thread James W
Yes absolutely. Not really the ideal place to vent, but the delay in rolling out to other countries is beyond ridiculous and incredibly frustrating. It has got to be self defeating also. I moved from England to Hong Kong, so now I cannot buy apps, I cannot sell my apps, because HK is not

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-02 Thread Mark Carter
AFAIK, whether you can sell apps or not is dictated by the country of your Google Developer account. So if your Google Developer account (or is that Google account?) is registered in the UK, you can move to HK and still sell paid apps. On 2 August 2010 10:00:20 UTC+2, James W

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-02 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I can confirm that. If you are a resident of country where you can sell your apps from, meaning you have an address and a bank account, you can still sell apps. It's not like Google is checking your IP address when you are uploading your app. On Aug 2, 4:10 pm, Mark Carter

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-01 Thread sblantipodi
I will bump that thread http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/97e2ba40f258f21b until I will get a reply. Thanks :) On Jul 27, 7:55 pm, Trevor Johns trevorjo...@google.com wrote: Android fans, For those of you who haven't already heard through our blog, we've

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-31 Thread Pent
It was the obfuscation messing up this line in LicenceChecker: new Intent(ILicensingService.class.getName()), I changed this to new Intent(ILicensingService.Stub.getDescriptor()), and added a correspinding static function in ILicensingService. Since the docs recommend obfuscation, I think the

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-31 Thread skooter500
This sounds great, but is completely useless to me as Im in Ireland and no paid apps available to my potential users, so I've gone ahead and made my own user registration and payment system based around PayPal. A complete waste of my time, but what can ya do? From Reto Meier: Unfortunately I

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-31 Thread keyeslabs
Speaking as someone who has traveled this road before with my own implementation of basically the same approach, obfuscation will be critical. With AAL, it took about three days for someone to crack the app. The process looks something like this: decompile the apk using a freely available open

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-31 Thread Quintin Willison
Just noticed this. Excellent news! Thanks. Now to find some time to explore it... :) -- 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,

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-30 Thread Pent
Building with eclipse it seems OK, but via Ant I get: I/LicenseChecker( 2115): Binding to licensing service. E/LicenseChecker( 2115): Could not bind to service. W/ActivityManager( 85): Unable to start service Intent { act=av }: not found Any hints ? Pent -- You received this message because

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-30 Thread Indicator Veritatis
Now don't get me wrong, I am sure Google did a better job of it than ARM did, but I learned to hate licensing servers from the bitter experience of using ARM's licensing server for their development tools. We had continual problems with false negatives, i.e, the program refused to run because it

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-30 Thread sblantipodi
same problem here: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/8f09bd1993d14f13 On Jul 30, 5:24 pm, Pent tas...@dinglisch.net wrote: Building with eclipse it seems OK, but via Ant I get: I/LicenseChecker( 2115): Binding to licensing service. E/LicenseChecker( 2115):

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-30 Thread Xavier Ducrohet
if you are using an emulator, make sure you use the Google APIs add-on for API 8 (2.2) in revision 2. Instructions for the setup: http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/licensing.html#acct-signin On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Pent tas...@dinglisch.net wrote: Building with eclipse it

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-30 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Joseph Earl joseph.w.e...@gmail.comwrote: Any chance you guys are working a solution for large applications that will work across Android 1.5-2.1? No those platforms are already exist; it would make no sense to modify them to support new features. Currently

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-30 Thread Shane Isbell
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Joseph Earl joseph.w.e...@gmail.comwrote: Any chance you guys are working a solution for large applications that will work across Android 1.5-2.1? No those platforms are already

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-30 Thread Mark Murphy
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Shane Isbell shane.isb...@gmail.com wrote: Does this mean that apps installed on SD card are not going to be able to store private data (Context.MODE_PRIVATE) on device? AFAIK, the app's local files (e.g., getFilesDir()) is still in the on-board flash, not on

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-30 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Shane Isbell shane.isb...@gmail.comwrote: Does this mean that apps installed on SD card are not going to be able to store private data (Context.MODE_PRIVATE) on device? No that is a totally different thing. All installed apps have a private data directory,

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-29 Thread sblantipodi
With the new LVL we can have only one build for Free trial and for Full version, it's really find your adjectives that we need to upload two identical copyes of the same software with different package name, don't you think? On Jul 28, 6:01 pm, Joseph Earl joseph.w.e...@gmail.com wrote: Not

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread William Ferguson
ProGuard obfuscates your compiled code. The Obfuscator referred to in the Licensing Server doc obfuscates licensing info retrieved from AppMarket. On Jul 28, 7:44 am, sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org wrote: I haven't understood if using this library external obfuscation (proguard for

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread MrChaz
Great stuff, I'll certainly be implementing this as soon as I can. Thanks :) On Jul 27, 6:55 pm, Trevor Johns trevorjo...@google.com wrote: Android fans, For those of you who haven't already heard through our blog, we've just launched the Android Market licensing service:

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread Mark Carter
I'm getting NOT_MARKET_MANAGED when using my own gmail account on my N1 and using Respond normally. The app is a paid app on the Android Market. The only difference could be the app signature (I'm debugging so not doing production signing). My gmail account was used to publish the app and I have

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread Mark Carter
Seems that this call in AESObfuscator is taking a few seconds: SecretKey tmp = factory.generateSecret(keySpec); -- 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

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread draf...@gmail.com
Really required in the Republic of Ireland too, Android devices are getting quite popular here and the time has come to open the paid market On Jul 27, 9:24 pm, Sebastian Rodriguez srodrig...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Anton Persson. When will Google realize that opening the paid market to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread Mark Carter
Ok, just figured this out. The version code of the app I was testing was not one that was recognised by the Android Market. So, it is the combination of package name and version code that needs to have been published. Its sort of explained in line 2317 of the docs :) Once an application is

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread Tomáš Hubálek
Please open Android Market to more countries. This is really cool feature but currently useless for me. And also I would be happy to use this for in-app purchase if possible. Tom On 28 čnc, 11:32, Mark Carter mjc1...@googlemail.com wrote: Ok, just figured this out. The version code of the app

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread sblantipodi
Hi all... When you bought my software you bought a license, this license can be ported from android to other platform like Symbian, Winmob, bada, JavaME, Blackberry... Every customers who bought my license is registered on our database, (email address and device id), this let me generate a new

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread gcstang
Excellent! Thank you On Jul 28, 6:44 am, sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org wrote: Hi all... When you bought my software you bought a license, this license can be ported from android to other platform like Symbian, Winmob, bada, JavaME, Blackberry... Every customers who bought my

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread Joseph Earl
Not with this system as far as I'm aware - users will have to purchase a new license when changing to a phone running a different OS. You'll have to continue using your own system if you want this kind of functionality. On Jul 28, 12:44 pm, sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org wrote: Hi

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread Joseph Earl
Any chance you guys are working a solution for large applications that will work across Android 1.5-2.1? Currently the only secure way of doing it is by targeting Froyo only (using 8 as minSdkVersion) - however it will be at least a year, more likely 3, before this an acceptable solution to

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread sblantipodi
Joseph thanks for your reply, using my own system means that I can't sell my software on the market. Am I right? On Jul 28, 6:01 pm, Joseph Earl joseph.w.e...@gmail.com wrote: Not with this system as far as I'm aware - users will have to purchase a new license when changing to a phone running a

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread Joseph Earl
Not necessarily. Rather than force users to go to your site to purchase a license code/ key, you'd need to allow users to purchase from Android Market as usual, and then ask them to enter the Google Checkout code when the app first launches. Your own system can then deal with verifying the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread Trevor Johns
A third-party obfuscator is not strictly required, but it certainly adds an additional level of security. We even mention it in our developer docs: The LVL provides a full Obfuscator implementation called AESObfuscator that uses AES encryption to obfuscate data. You can use AESObfuscator in your

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I just posted my toughts on the integration process in a separate thread on this forum, as I didn't want to hijack this one. It might be interesting read for some people: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/d54f65beff467b26# -- You received this message

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-27 Thread Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)
Excellent! Now all we need is a subscription payment model and we can actually make some money! -John Coryat -- 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

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-27 Thread Anton Persson
That, and the ability for folks to actually access the paid-for apps... Sweden, like probably many countries still, have no access to the paid apps... When will Google understand that this is critical for them to keep the momentum? If the status quo persists, people we give up, pack their bags

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-27 Thread sblantipodi
excellent, is there some code sample on how to use this new apis? On Jul 27, 8:42 pm, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: What's great is that it's available on all Android versions starting with 1.5 (i.e. it's not a Froyo only feature). -- Kostya 27.07.2010 21:55, Trevor Johns пишет:

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-27 Thread Trevor Johns
Yes. There's a code sample that's bundled as part of the library download. You'll find it in $SDK_ROOT/market_licensing/sample. -- Trevor Johns Google Developer Programs, Android http://developer.android.com On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:55 AM, sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.orgwrote:

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-27 Thread Kaj Bjurman
I saw that entry, and have a question. What will happen if the user doesn't have network connectivity? Many users turn of data traffic when they travel to other countries, but the probably still want to use the licensed applications. On 27 Juli, 19:55, Trevor Johns trevorjo...@google.com

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-27 Thread Trevor Johns
Developers can chose whether to implement response caching or not. Assuming caching is enabled, we require a network connection for the first license check, but then the user can go offline for a period of time before requiring another license check. -- Trevor Johns Google Developer Programs,

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-27 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Is caching implemented in the library or in the Market app? I am concerned about potential abuse, such as replacing cache contents. -- Kostya Vasilyev -- http://kmansoft.wordpress.com 28.07.2010 0:23 пользователь Trevor Johns trevorjo...@google.com написал: Developers can chose whether to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-27 Thread Trevor Johns
It's implemented in the library. Cache contents are protected using a swappable Obfuscator class. We include a standard obfuscator implementation that encrypts cache data using AES-256 and an application-specific key, along with a copy of the device ID. This prevents tampering with cache data, or

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-27 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
OK, great. Thanks for the info. -- Kostya Vasilyev -- http://kmansoft.wordpress.com 28.07.2010 0:55 пользователь Trevor Johns trevorjo...@google.com написал: It's implemented in the library. Cache contents are protected using a swappable Obfuscator class. We include a standard obfuscator

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-27 Thread Sebastian Rodriguez
I agree with Anton Persson. When will Google realize that opening the paid market to all the other countries is crucial for the market environment :( We don't have access to them here in Singapore either. But this is a major step already, let's hope for even better! Seb On 28 July 2010 04:19,

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-27 Thread sblantipodi
I haven't understood if using this library external obfuscation (proguard for example) is needed for security reason or if we can avoid using external obfuscator, it's quite a pain using proguard in netbeans plus android sdk. On Jul 27, 10:24 pm, Sebastian Rodriguez srodrig...@gmail.com wrote: I

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-27 Thread Stephen Lebed
I just wanted to say a big thank you! Stephen On Jul 27, 10:55 am, Trevor Johns trevorjo...@google.com wrote: Android fans, For those of you who haven't already heard through our blog, we've just launched the Android Market licensing service: