Hi, We have 2 apps on Android Market - Camera Fun Pro (paid app) and Camera Fun Free (free app). Here is the situation:
* A user in UK (HTC Desire, OS 2.2, T-Mobile UK) could NOT find my apps “Camera Fun Pro” and “Camera Fun Free” on the Google Market. I have heard similar complaints from a few other users as well. * When I googled, I found a number of instances of developers complaining about apps not showing up in Google Market for their users when they had “Copy Protection” turned ON for their app listing. Based on this, I turned OFF the “Copy Protection” switch for both my apps at 10:48am. * At 11:03 am - within 15 mins, the same user confirmed that he could see the app. Nothing else changed in those 15 mins. This tells me that the “Copy Protection” causes some apps to remain hidden – not sure why. * Now I am happy that my app is visible to more people than before – but there seems to be a wrinkle with that too. See http://betterandroid.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/we-finally-found-the-root-cause-of-update-issue-its-because-androids-copy-protection/. Seems like when you go from copy-protection-ON to copy-protection-OFF, when an update is released, the updated software cannot access database created with the previous version. * In our apps Camera Fun Pro/Free, we are NOT using any databases. The only persistent data we store is to read/write the app preferences/ settings using the SharedPreferences class. Here is my question: this access restriction problem, is it limited to databases or does it happen with preferences? Now that my apps have gone copy-protection-ON to copy-protection-OFF, will there be any problem when I release updates for my apps? FYI – the min OS required for my apps is 1.6. I am really nervous about releasing updates to my apps – I hope somebody from Google can definitely clarify this issue. Thanks, Vinay Athma SpiceLoop -- 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
