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 > application without modification or you can adapt it to your needs. For more > information, see the next section. > Alternatively, you can write a custom Obfuscator based on your own code or > use an obfuscator program such as ProGuard for additional security. -- Trevor Johns Google Developer Programs, Android http://developer.android.com On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:44 PM, sblantipodi <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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, Kaj Bjurman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Android fans, > > > > For those of you who haven't already heard through our blog, we've > > > > just launched the Android Market licensing service: > > > > > > > http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/07/licensing-service-for-... > > > > > > From the above blog post: > > > > > > "This simple and free service provides a secure mechanism to manage > > > > access to all Android Market paid applications targeting Android 1.5 > > > > or higher. At run time, with the inclusion of a set of libraries > > > > provided by us, your application can query the Android Market > > > > licensing server to determine the license status of your users. It > > > > returns information on whether your users are authorized to use the > > > > app based on stored sales records." > > > > > > Developer documentation is available here: > > > > > >http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/licensing.html > > > > > > Happy coding! > > > > > > -- > > > > Trevor Johns > > > > Google Developer Programs, Androidhttp://developer.android.com > > > > > -- > > > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > <android-developers%[email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > -- > > Sebastien Rodriguez > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > 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 [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
