Hi! I was wondering about some real world issues about commercial applications:
- Will there be a possibility for encrypted APKs as some of the information included with the app (files, media, images, databases) can be copyrighted with the need to protect it from illegal copy. - Could there be an Android based solution for evaluation purposes and time limitations? - How can we protect our software from being just copied from one phone to another? The trick would be to add some checksum files created from serial no and phone info, but what are the proper mechanisms for that? What is the unique and reliable info from the OS or phone that could be used and could not be cracked very easily? - How to protect data in SQLite? For example, the software needs a load of data that will be stored in database after initial launch. But the data could be also suitable for other illegal purposes - sharing on Internet, creating your own apps etc. But it is once again intellectual property of someone. - Another issue is the actual protection of user data itself. Currently the emulator is as open as it can be! If the phone is stolen for example, some data could be really sensitive that can be stored in the Phone SQLite database? Will there be any solutions how to restrict access to the console level in the future that the user himself can set and manage? Possible solutions that I have come to are: - hardcoding the copyrighted data into code - using obfuscators to protect the code from some reverse engineering attempts - authenticating the app over Internet on the first use and creating some MD5 checkfiles I find those questions important! If you have similar doubts or you could extend the list of those issues, we could try to improve those questions together through a wider dialogue! Regards Jack --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
