1) Piracy: Don't know how worried you should be yet. Unlike some here, I am not of the opinion that piracy will actually increase my sales, nor do I believe that 0% of the freeloaders would ever pay for my app. But despite this philosophical leaning, I've never gotten around to doing LVL, proguard or other antipiracy steps. I've just been too busy improving my app.
2). Read up on the Android Library Project. I haven't used it fully yet, but it could be helpful. 3). Package names have to be different for two listings in the market. That way they won't conflict, and you won't have to remove the demo version first. Preferences won't transfer by themselves; someone else here may know more about that. 4) Don't think it matters. Use the keytool. On Oct 5, 9:44 am, Joel Duggan <[email protected]> wrote: > So I'm ready to release my first app. It's a live wallpaper (getting my > feet wet with something simple) and I need some guidance. > > I have a few questions that I'd really like some answers to. > > 1) Piracy. How worried should I be? I could use the Google LVL stuff but > I've read that it's basically useless unless you also use something like > Proguard. My app only has a couple of classes which likely wouldn't be > affected by proguard because they're referenced in the manifest. Should I > bother with anything at all? > > 2) Demo vs. Full. I'd like to release a Demo/Lite version plus a full > version. The lite would basically change the name of the app and force a > few preferences to disabled so that the user sees the preferences and > "wants" the full version. What is the best way to manage this, from within > Eclipse preferably? > > 3) How do I manage things so that the user can upgrade simply without > having to remove the demo version? From the things I've read it sounds like > there can be a collision with a name or key or something (package name > perhaps) that requires the user to remove the demo version before the full > can be installed. > > 4) Should I just use the keytool to get a key set or should I use something > more reputable? Does it matter? > > Any help/advice would be much appreciated. > > Joel -- 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
