I came here to comment again on my active install numbers and this is for sure the same thing that has happened to me. My app works by unlocking the paid features when a user purchases the license key app package. The app detects that it is on the device to unlock features. I was using encryption on the license key to mitigate piracy. Since there wasn't really any code in the license key, I hadn't needed to update it since it was first posted. My numbers seems a little off, but close enough to what I was seeing from the revenue information.
Now that Google is close to removing the encryption option, I added LVL code to the license key package that my app will call. I haven't deployed the app yet, but did deploy the new license key app package on Friday morning. I think because without encryption, the license key package is visible to a lot more people that this is one of the big things that has drastically increased my sales numbers on Friday and Saturday (30 this Sat compared to 8 last Sat). So with the huge increase in sales, what does my active installs for the license key look like? It dropped from 78% down to about 58% as of this morning (Sunday). So it really appears that upgrades are being counted as uninstalls...probably for everyone. On Sep 14, 11:55 pm, Tomáš Hubálek <tom.huba...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:44 AM, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Posted this in the other thread. We received a comment from the Market > > people: > > > Thanks for writing in. We are currently investigating this issue. So far, > >> this appears to be purely a reporting issue: some update events are being > >> inaccurately recorded as uninstalls, rather than updates, creating a lower > >> active installs percentage. However, our investigation tells us that > >> applications are not actually being uninstalled. We hope to have a > >> resolution soon. > > This is crazy. > > Tom > > --http://android.hubalek.net -- 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, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
