It sure would be great to have an API to give away apps. You could supply the gmail address tied to an account and the application ID and then when that user visited the market they could download the specified app for free as though they had already purchased it. This would be very helpful to a client of mine.
Warren On Oct 6, 3:20 am, Adam Hammer <adamhamm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, the Apks are just content providers, no activities or > interactive services (other then the ContentResolver interfaces). So > no place for a splash screen in them. > > I have a ContentProvider that supplies information about resources in > the apk file that can be accessed, each package inherits this class > and exposes a new authority with access to new resources. > > My first purchase turned into a return 4 hours later. I'm sure it's > just a pirate and my stuff is already leaked to the real world. > Luckily I didn't publish anything of great value to the market. I > emailed the 1st purchaser a few hours after purchase to make sure > everything went ok, and then again after the refund. No response to > either email. > > I'm attempting to integrate market licensing to this, that way I can > prevent cheap bastards from doing a purchase & return and keeping the > item and then giving it away for free. With Market Licensing I can > also put my friends on test accounts for the time being. > > I am thinking you might be able to let them put the purchase through > and then give them a refund without deactivation, but I dunno yet > because the one guy who bought it already got a refund. > > No > > On Oct 5, 9:09 pm, Chris Stratton <cs07...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Why don't you just put the giftee's name on a splash screen? (and > > maybe also somewhere else, not in plaintext) > > > On Oct 5, 9:52 pm, Adam Hammer <adamhamm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Is there a way to gift a paid app if you are the developer? > > > > I want to gift VIA the android market. I don't want to give apk's in > > > the wild, and I might want to use Market Authorization on the gifted > > > apk's (although I suppose if I can just handle market authorization I > > > can send the secure apk, I just don't want to mail insecure ones out). -- 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
