I haven't understood if I can't delete my actual trial app from the market.
On Jul 28, 3:33 pm, Olivier Guilyardi <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, that's right, and I don't understand why you consider this to be a > nightmare. Other issues may qualify as such, but not this one IMO. > > The market doesn't allow you to turn a free into a paid app, and I think > that's > because it would turn into a grand mess for people who upgrade but originally > downloaded the app when it was free. > > And anyway, it's very common to have two flavours of an app, on Android and > other platforms. And they exist as separate apps. > > Try and adapt a little bit instead of being negative. > > Olivier > > On 07/28/2010 02:31 PM, sblantipodi wrote: > > > I'm sorry but reading better what you write, this means that I need to > > upload to > > different version for Payed and Free version? o_O > > > this market is really a nightmare, can't imagine a worst way to > > develop a market... > > > On Jul 28, 2:19 pm, RichardC <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yup that is a "feature" of the market. > > >> You need to change the package name and upload it as a new product to > >> go from free to paid. I can think of 2 reasons for this restriction > >> in the market (there are probably others as well): > >> 1. Everyone with the current free version would get the paid version > >> for free. > >> 2. It would look like your stats and recommendations for the old free > >> product were for the new paid product. > > >> If you want to have both a free and paid version of your application > >> this I sugguest you have a look at Android library support built into > >> Eclipse and you structure your product(s) as below: > > >> project my_app_free -> uses project: my_app_lib (Android Library) > >> package: com.example.myapp.free > > >> project my_app_paid--> uses project: my_app_lib (Android Library) > >> package: com.example.myapp.paid > > >> You put all of your common code and resources in the my_app_lib > >> project. > > >> The LVL code goes only into the my_app_paid project and you can put > >> code to restrict the free vesion (or to add ads) in the my app_free > >> project. > > >> Hope this works for you, I have a few applcations built this way and > >> it is working fine so far. > > >> On Jul 28, 12:37 pm, sblantipodi <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> Hi, > >>> actually I have published a free trial application on Android market. > >>> Since there is a protection method now (LVL) I want to upload also the > >>> full version of that application. > >>> Unfortunantly when I try to upload the full version on the market it > >>> tell me that there is just another software with the same package name > >>> and to update that package. > >>> When I update that package it doesn't let me choose to switch from > >>> free to payed. > >>> How can I do it? > >>> Thanks. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
