We (AndAppStore) already have a system available which you can find details of at http://andappstore.com/AndroidApplications/licensing.jsp
It's not tied to our purchasing system, so you can use it to generate licenses from your own site if you wish. We always welcome feedback so if you have any comments on it then feel free to drop me an email. Al. - * Looking for Android Apps? - Try http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. On Nov 14, 8:39 pm, Pooper <[email protected]> wrote: > What you can do is make your user enter serial #, the serial number > could > be a hashing function that you come up with that takes the device id > (could be the imei number) > the application could then check if the serial/hash code matches for > that device. This would > require your customer to send you his/her imei # or another unique # > associated with the device so that > you can generate the serial code for that device. > > You can also implement a two step method so that the customer can't > accidently enter in their imei incorrectly by misstake. > > To do it this way you would generate a "Request For Serial Number > Code" store this code in your database. The costomer > enters this code in their phone, your phone connects to your web > server sends the "Request for Serial number code" and the > IMEI number of the phone with it. Your server generates the hash/ > serial and sends it back to the phone. You can then mark > the "Request for serial number code" as used so that they can not use > it for another device. This is the method I use for my > applications. > > On Nov 14, 8:39 am, jax <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yes, that is why I have posted the question because I don't know how > > to do it. > > > Has anyone done this before or know of a method for achieving this? > > > On Nov 14, 10:23 pm, Andrei <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > What u want to do is to tie your app to one device > > > How u do it up to u > > > > On Nov 14, 7:12 am, jax <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I am wondering how I might go about securing a paid app on Android. > > > > > I am thinking of selling the application from my own website via > > > > PayPal, however, how will I stop people from sharing it with their > > > > friends etc. Does Android have any type of native support for this?- > > > > 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
