Release 2 identical apps, 1 w/ DRM, 1 w/out.
Use entirely different names.
You will find that you will sell multiple times more copies of the unprotected
app.
Going back to 1981, our computer club would share apple basic programs amongst
ourselves, the pirates.
Without exception, the programs we
Interesting topic.. I was just reading about DexGuard, which is about $450
USD I think.. seems worth it to me if it works well and you're making money
on your apps.
Question though.. is there a way to know if someone bought the app
(downloaded through a store it was published to) or just
You can get the name of the app that installed your app using:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html#getInstallerPackageName(java.lang.String)
If it matches the Google Play package name, then it was installed through
Google Play.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at
On Jan 8, 2013 1:08 AM, Raghav Sood raghavs...@gmail.com wrote:
You can get the name of the app that installed your app using:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html#getInstallerPackageName(java.lang.String)
If it matches the Google Play package name,
That's why the Google I/O 2011 presentation Evading Pirates and Stopping
Vampireshttp://www.google.com/events/io/2011/sessions/evading-pirates-and-stopping-vampires-using-license-verification-library-in-app-billing-and-app-engine.htmlshould
be seriously taken into consideration. To recap the
We're finishing up an Android-specific tool that goes further than
ProGuard. It should become available in the coming few weeks.
Eric (developer of ProGuard)
On 6 mei, 12:43, Jxn anders.jack...@gmail.com wrote:
They could do much better than usingProguard.
Any suggestions on a better tool?
Hi Eric,
Thank you - is this third party or headed for the SDK?
Also, is this going to cover resources, finally? Just do drive the
point home, check this out:
http://theotigerblog.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/squareskimmer/
This guy apparently ripped Square's drawables from the apk and created
a
I would guess from his @cornell email address it will most certainly
be third party... :-)
kris
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:02 AM, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Eric,
Thank you - is this third party or headed for the SDK?
Also, is this going to cover resources, finally? Just do drive
Now you are making me feel bad. I thought for sure someone would want to
steal the Vampire of Needham ;-}
Tom B
On Thursday, May 3, 2012 12:04:16 PM UTC-4, Giuseppe wrote:
In our app we use Proguard and License system from Google.
Our app and other thousand of apps are published on this web
ProGuard and the new tool are my own developments. The Android team
includes ProGuard in the SDK.
The new tool currently focuses on dalvik bytecode, with automated
string encryption, class encryption, and reflection. Developers can
always encrypt/obfuscate resource files themselves. Automating
It's not about software (it's about books), but I found this link
interesting in this context too:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/05/drm-free-day-forever.html
Mike Hendrickson (vice president for content strategy at O'reilly)
basically thinks it's a marketing expense and that the publishing
As you need to read the program before you can execute it, you really
can't protect it from being copied. Proguard or anything else.
You can only make it more or less inconvenient to do that, and that
will generate more user support work for you.
And there are some collectors that just wan lots
One way to think about piracy is that the people pirating your app probably
wouldn't have bought your app to begin with.
On Thursday, May 3, 2012 12:04:16 PM UTC-4, Giuseppe wrote:
In our app we use Proguard and License system from Google.
Our app and other thousand of apps are published on
On May 3, 10:28 am, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.com wrote:
Google can't really do anything about it.
They could do much better than using Proguard.
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We found that having part of the application value sitting on a server
provides a decent protection. People can crack the app all they want but
they only get the logic, not the data. The data is only accessible to
registered users, and it is watermarked so we can find and punish the ones
who
google could by just crypting and signing the binaries maybe in ten years
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Adam Ratana adam.rat...@gmail.com wrote:
To add to this:
I've seen some apps I've made get cracked and posted on various sites, but
the ones that had true appeal (imo) continue to sell
*Every *app can be cracked and pirated. It doesn't matter how much layers
of protection you add to your app; your app can always be cracked. If
someone is willing to spend time to reverse engineer your app and has
enough determination, they will succeed.
If i may be so bold to say, the only
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Streets Of Boston
flyingdutc...@gmail.com wrote:
Every app can be cracked and pirated. It doesn't matter how much layers of
protection you add to your app; your app can always be cracked. If someone
is willing to spend time to reverse engineer your app and has
To add to this:
I've seen some apps I've made get cracked and posted on various sites, but
the ones that had true appeal (imo) continue to sell regardless. Generally
the people who will download cracked versions would likely never pay in the
first place, is something many people have said
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