Robert, If there's even 1 user who wants to crack / forward your games I don't think there's anything you can do to stop him and protect them. This has always been and will always be, on all devices and OSes. >From what I've seen people on the Market, people do like your games very much, so keep them interested and they'll keep buying. There are always conscious people who'd (almost) never pirate, and then others who pirate everything they can get their hands on. I don't think Google can protect your apps from the latter.
I've removed copy protection on the 1st day from the minute I've read how "protected" apps were "protected". Cheers, Stoyan On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Robert Green <rbgrn....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ouch! That seems like a horribly inefficient way to do it! Perhaps I > will shut off the copy protection until it's implemented better. > - Show quoted text - > On Feb 26, 11:03 pm, strazzere <str...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Just a little more depth on it... >> >> If you look at what the copy protection is doing - it dumps your >> normal .apk to /data/app-private then puts a .zip in /data/app >> >> The .apk is your originally signed one - and the .zip is you manifest, >> resources and res folder. So that res folder basically doubles your >> size since it contacts copies of all of the resources you also contain >> in your .apk >> >> -Tim >> >> On Feb 26, 11:23 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com> wrote: >> >> > copy-protection doubles the amount of size needed to store the app on >> > the device indeed. >> >> > JBQ >> >> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Robert Green <rbgrn....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > > For Wuzzle, the signed trial APK is 878KB and the signed full game APK >> > > is 934KB. I do have copy protection turned on for both and it did say >> > > it would increase the space needed. I figured that meant it would add >> > > an extra 10KB or something reasonable. They are listed on the market >> > > as being 1.71MB and 1.82MB respectively. I didn't think it would >> > > literally double the app size! >> >> > > My other game, Light Racer has a signed APK of 288KB and is posted >> > > with no copy protection. It is listed on the market as 289KB, which >> > > is correct. >> >> > > Has anyone else noticed this? >> >> > -- >> > Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru >> > Android Engineer, Google. >> >> > Please don't contact me directly. >> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
