Yeah, I mentioned it to you about a month ago. Shame no one else has expressed an interest. For me, writing special code for a 3rd party store means I'm less likely to use that store. I'm sure others feel the same even if they have not expressed an interest.
So count me in as a +1 for an LVL compatible library. On 8 September 2010 16:13, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark, > We already > have http://andappstore.com/AndroidApplications/purchase_checking.jsp which > can be used to combat piracy. > I asked a few weeks ago if there was any interest in an LVL compatible > library and didn't get a single yes, hence why i hasn't been implemented. > LVL uses the same basic design & cryptography as the licensing system we > developed early last year and offered to Google so its' not a lot of work > for us. > 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 8 Sep 2010, at 14:04, Mark Carter wrote: > > I have uploaded my free apps to AndAppStore in the past and am happy > to continue doing so. > > As a test, I also tried uploading one of my small paid apps, but sales > are about 1% of the same app on Android Market. > > However, my main concerns about using AndAppStore for paid apps > revolve around piracy. One thing that would lower the barrier, would > be if AndAppStore provided an LVL compatible licensing solution. I > should be able to just swap an AndAppStore LVL project in for the > official Google LVL Library Project (and maybe change some public > key), rebuild the app, and be done. Is this possible? > > My concern then, would only be about the up-time/stability of an > AndAppStore licensing server. > > On Sep 8, 10:13 am, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tom, > > In some ways I find it amusing the way this discussion has gone. > > You started off with an email saying you have problems finding a revenue > stream for your app, but your now giving the impression you won't support > alternatives which could give you this revenue stream. If developers, such > as yourself, don't support alternative app stores your basically saying > Googles Market is good enough for all your needs, and all the time you're > doing that Google don't really have a driver to change Market all that > quickly. > > Yes, it's true that alternative markets can't give you the number of > potential users you could get through market, but to refuse to even try out > options to see what revenue they could generate seems strange to me, after > all listing on Market is no guarantee your going to actually sell anything > because on Market your app is one amongst tens of thousands all competing > for users attention. > > You can also think of it this way; Google is a business, and so anything > they do will need to have a justification. At the moment anyone trying to > justify expanding paid apps will probably be met with the counter argument; > "Well developers have alternative markets they could use and they choose not > to, so it can't be that important", which is quite a strong argument. If > developers can't be bothered to spend a few minutes listing and maintaining > an app at even one or two market alternatives then why should google believe > the developer is going to put the effort in to maintain a quality product on > Market? > > At the end of the day it's your personal choice, and I respect that, but if > you don't want to spend the time showing Google there is a demand for a > feature by using the alternatives available to you, then I can't see them > giving a lot of weight to the request. > > Al. > > P.S. The closest we can come to what you want is our service to pull apps > from feeds (http://andappstore.com/AndroidApplications/feeds.jsp) > > -- > > * Looking for Android Apps? - Tryhttp://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 8 Sep 2010, at 08:33, Tomáš Hubálek wrote: > > > > Al, > > if you make it simple (one time approval, no uploads, online rejection of > approval if necessary, automated almost real time mirroring from Android > Market), I'll give you approval for all my free apps. > > As you talked about egg and chicken issue, that's the real cause. You need a > lot of good apps and when I'll see that your market gives me extra > downloads, I'll probably spend some time with adapting them to paid version > specific for your market. Until this time it is just one from many for me. > Sorry. > > I believe that the same feeling have other developers too. > > Tom > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > We looked at that and found some developers would object to us carrying > their free apps, hence why we don't auto-mirror. Apart from that Market uses > closed protocols so even if we offered the option we'd be running the risk > of it breaking if Google changed the protocol. > > We are looking at an upload URL where devs can submit their username, > password, and app ID, and an APK which will add a new release to > AndAppStore. Do people think anyone would use it? > > Al. > > -- > > * Looking for Android Apps? - Tryhttp://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 8 Sep 2010, at 08:16, Tomáš Hubálek wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Olivier Guilyardi <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It's not just a few minutes of work. Dealing with alternative stores take > some > > extra time on every new release. > > I believe that it would very help to your alternative market if you made > automated mirroring free apps from Android market (after developers's > approval of course). > > There is plenty of alternative markets and I don't want to spend time with > filling out forms in all of them (they are different, every needs different > set of information). But I would definitely give approval for copying my > free apps from Android Market to alternative one (only important thing is > that it should be always up to date). > > Have a good day > > Tom > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------- > > Tom Hubalek ([email protected]), > > http://android.hubalek.net,http://blog.hubalek.net/ > > http://facebook.com/thubalek,http://www.linkedin.com/in/thubalek > > http://twitter.com/thubalek,http://twitter.com/android_dev_tom > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. 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