I just wanted to mention my experience. I have wanted a way to do something that should be very simple - give my app to someone free.
There is still no good, completely free way to do that. However, I looked up the Google Play Gift Cards. One of the options was to choose email delivery. I bought a batch of five $10 cards at walmart.com and chose 'Email Delivery'. In 20 minutes, I got an email with five gift codes. I gave one of the codes to a person who asked for a free license, for a valid reason. I included the instructions. Some things to note: It helps if your app is exactly $10 (or $25, or $50). You are still out $3 in that case if they buy your app. You are out all $10 if they don't buy your app. Not a big concern for me. They just better not crawl back asking for another $10 code. In case you ask, yes, I know it can be free to hand out an APK. I won't do it for these reasons. I don't like passing APKs in the open. My APK is readily available on several sites, I know. LVL probably won't work. Updates won't work. I don't know if in app purchases will work. After every single update, I will get an email from each and every person to whom I have ever sent the APK, nagging me to send them the latest update. All the good feelings I had about giving them the free product for their charitable nonprofit cause will then melt away and I will begin to think of them as greedy and annoying. Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-discuss/-/QKO6YEEXrAwJ. 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.
