On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Ricardo Amaral <mas...@ricardoamaral.net> wrote: > I'm a little confused... If SharedPreferences are not safe for this, how are > apps handling validation if they don't use online validation? I'm sure there > are a couple who don't use online validation but have some sort of > validation and they probably use SharedPreferences to control the app > validation. How come they use it if it's not safe at all?
Because it is good enough to stop casual piracy. Little will stop a serious pirate. This is not significantly different than for any other popular platform in the history of computers -- the only platforms with no piracy are the platforms nobody uses. > Online validation is something I really wanted to avoid. I know that most > people have an internet connection always on, but when they don't, I really > don't want to downgrade my app or prevent them from using it. I'm not very > comfortable with such policy. That doesn't leave me with any other options > does it? You could come up with a business model that does not depend upon defeating pirates. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books -- 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
