You will need to find other ways to protect your apks and bind them to
a single device.

The original apk files are stored in the directory /data/app after
installation, so nothing prevents anyone right now to copy that to a
different location and install it on another device.

Peli

On Oct 29, 5:24 am, JP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As developer who plans to charge for app downloads in order to control
> the hits to a brick-and-mortar server, I am not too crazy about the
> idea of .apk files being transferred off handsets, enabling
> uncontrolled redistribution. I haven't an opportunity yet to research
> the avenues that an .apk file can take off a handset, but SD transfers
> would certainly open an easy one. In the fight between the interest of
> controlled app distribution vs. the satisfaction of hypertrophic
> desires to zap apps: I'll vote for controlled distribution.
>
> On Oct 28, 8:36 pm, Razor1973 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > With all these interesting applications coming out by the hour, I ran
> > out of room 2 days ago.  I can't wait to be able to move installed
> > applications to the SD card or, at least, uninstall the ones I have
> > and reinstall them on the SD card.  I was wondering if anyone had any
> > inside information on when this will happen, most likely via FOTA.
> > Or, ideally, someone from the Android team giving us some real hope
> > here.  I'll take this before an on-screen virtual keyboard.
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