Well, as I said, with my uploaded, but unpublished app, if I use a phone that has ANY valid gmail connected to it, it always returns that it is Licensed (I have tried this on about 10 or so different phones, with version 1.6 through 2.2). I am hoping that once I publish it that this will change, but I have no way of knowing for sure. This whole LVL thing may have been an exercise in futility.
On Nov 14, 4:28 pm, Zsolt Vasvari <zvasv...@gmail.com> wrote: > I also think there is a problem. > > I released my app with LVL. I haven't gotten any reports of false > negatives, but, contrary to my expectation, I still haven't had a > "pirate" later repurchase my app. I define a pirate as somebody who > requests a refund within 20 minutes of purchase. That's about 10% of > my purchases, which, in a week amounts to about 15 people. > > Now, I know the majority people pirating wouldn't pay for it in the > first place, but certainly some percentage would. But I had not one > person do that. While there is no emperical evidence, the most likely > explantion I could come up wuth is that LVL returns "allowed" even if > not licensed. I use the extras fields returned by Google, so it's > also possible that the liicense is still valid after a week, no idea. > > On Nov 15, 6:21 am, bagelboy <greg.do...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > You can't, basically. All you can do is publish and hope their system > > works. My answer to this problem was to not use the response extras > > and to create a system that can deal with an incorrect response here > > and there. > > > On Nov 14, 4:00 pm,JohnGaby<jg...@gabysoft.com> wrote: > > > > Actually, that thought has occurred to me (I have already read that > > > thread), but really, how am I supposed to be able to test my app > > > before I publish it if that is the case? > > > > On Nov 14, 3:29 am, bagelboy <greg.do...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Perhaps the responses aren't correct because your app is not > > > > published. > > > > > this thread may provide some > > > > insight:http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > > > > > On Nov 14, 3:31 am,JohnGaby<jg...@gabysoft.com> wrote: > > > > > > I have added some logging code and found that the raw response from > > > > > theLicenseService (i.e. the call back to verifyLicense in > > > > > LicenseChecker.java) has a responseCode of '0', which means > > > > > 'licensed'. This is simply not correct. This phone does NOT have a > > > > > valid account which would generate such a response. Can someone > > > > > please explain why this is happening. Does thisLicenseService > > > > > simply not work correctly on a large number of phones? Does using the > > > > > service have any value at all? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > On Nov 13, 3:31 am, bagelboy <greg.do...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > I recently did my ownLVLimplementation and I can tell you that > > > > > > tracing these issues down is a real pain. First you need to put > > > > > > loads > > > > > > of logging into theLVLcode to find out what the actual response is, > > > > > > otherwise you have no visibility, then you have to put logging into > > > > > > all the code between the response and the allow/dontallow callbacks. > > > > > > > Basically what I found was the stock code was unworkable in many > > > > > > ways. > > > > > > I quickly came to the conclusion that I needed to modify it into > > > > > > something that worked for me. There's a few reasons behind why you > > > > > > should abandon the stock code: > > > > > > - if you use the stock implementation then crackers will find it > > > > > > very > > > > > > easy to circumvent > > > > > > - as you have found it is very hard to debug. You have to spend so > > > > > > much time figuring out how it works you may as well roll your own > > > > > > instead. > > > > > > - who's to say whether the google responses are what you want? How > > > > > > many retries do you want before it sends a dontAllow back? Maybe you > > > > > > want to treat the error responses as a retry. Do you want google to > > > > > > specify that or yourself? Do you want them to specify the time > > > > > > between > > > > > > checks? It's better to take control of this process so you know > > > > > > exactly what is going on and you can manage the user experience. > > > > > > > In the system I came up with in the end all I use is the response > > > > > > and > > > > > > none of the extras. What I do with the response is all custom, that > > > > > > way I can use the market test responses in development without > > > > > > issues. > > > > > > > -BB > > > > > > > On Nov 13, 4:40 am,JohnGaby<jg...@gabysoft.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > I am using pretty much the default Android Market Licensing in my > > > > > > > application, but find that it is not working correctly on most of > > > > > > > the > > > > > > > devices that I have tested. I have uploaded my app to the Market > > > > > > > but > > > > > > > not published it. If install it on the emulator which does not > > > > > > > have > > > > > > > any Google accounts, then I receive a 'dontAllow' from the check, > > > > > > > which is correct. > > > > > > > > If I install it on a Motorola Droid phone (which I have in my > > > > > > > possession) that has my Market Google account associated with it, > > > > > > > then > > > > > > > it will return 'allow' or 'don't allow' depending on how I set the > > > > > > > test market. I have also installed it on an HTC Incredible phone, > > > > > > > and > > > > > > > it seems to work there as well. > > > > > > > > However, I have tested 4 other phones (HTC Hero, HTC Brovo > > > > > > > Desire, HTC > > > > > > > Droid Eris and HTC Nexus One), and on each of these phones, I get > > > > > > > an > > > > > > > 'allow' call from thelicensecheck, even though there is no > > > > > > > authorizing account on the phone. Can someone tell me what is > > > > > > > going > > > > > > > on here? > > > > > > > > Thanks.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- 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
