Mark you are obviously right, returning always licensed has no sense, is no useful and doesn't give any help to developers. I think that this behaviour is just lazyness from the google developer side.
On Aug 8, 11:40 pm, Mark Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm wondering if it would be better for all draft (never published) > apps to follow the rules set up in the Dev Console (rather than just > returning LICENSED)? > > Because: > > 1. Its more intuitive to the dev (as can be seen from this thread) > 2. It gives the dev more control - he can test an app fully (the > different license scenarios) before publishing. At the moment, I > regress the version code in my local project just so that I can test > the different license scenarios. This is a hack IMHO :( > > So, testing the licensing aspect of an app would involve saving the > app as draft and then setting the various licensing states in the dev > console. At this point, the apk could also be manually distributed to > beta testers. When all this has been completed, the app would be ready > for publishing. > > On Aug 7, 1:26 am, Trevor Johns <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If an app is not published AND not draft, then you'll get > > ERROR_NOT_MARKET_MANAGED. > > > If an app is in draft (never published), then we send LICENSED for all > > requests for that app. > > > If an app is published (or has been published then unpublished), then > > the response > > is driven by the dev console settings for the developer/testers, and purely > > by purchase history for everyone else. > > > -- > > Trevor Johns > > Google Developer Programs, Androidhttp://developer.android.com > > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Mark Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So to confirm. If an app is not published (nor draft) then the response is > > > dictated by the user's (i.e. the user running the app, not the one who > > > developed the app) setting in the Dev Console. If the user does not have a > > > Dev account (like many beta testers) then the response will be like > > > "Respond > > > normally"? > > > > If the app is published (or draft) then the response is driven primarily > > > by > > > the dev's console settings and secondarily by the Market license server > > > (storing who has paid for what). > > > > I think the first part could catch a lot of people out... > > > > On 5 August 2010 11:03, Trevor Johns <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> If the app isn't in Android Market, the license server will return > > >> ERROR_NOT_MARKET_MANAGED. LicenseValidator considers that to be a fatal > > >> error due to programmer error, and should invoke the applicationError() > > >> callback method. > > > >> My understanding from the server team is that uploading a draft version > > >> is > > >> supposed to be sufficient to avoid getting ERROR_NOT_MARKET_MANAGED. (In > > >> the > > >> case of existing applications, you'll also need to increment your version > > >> code.) > > > >> The other way you'll avoid this is precisely as Mark mentioned. If we > > >> don't find the application, we check to see if the current user has a > > >> developer account, and will send a test response (if one is set) using > > >> the > > >> user's RSA keypair. > > > >> -- > > >> Trevor Johns > > > >> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Kirky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>> Trevor, > > > >>> Can you clarify what the licensing server returns if the App is not in > > >>> the Android Market? In my experience (and it seems other people) it is > > >>> returning LICENSED. This does not seem sensible to me. > > > >>> Thanks > > > >>> Rob > > > >>> On Aug 4, 3:23 am, Trevor Johns <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>> -- > > >>> 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%2Bunsubs > > >>> [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]<android-developers%2Bunsubs > > >> [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]<android-developers%2Bunsubs > > > [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. 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