[android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-06-01 Thread Doug
On May 31, 12:59 am, Nikolay Elenkov nikolay.elen...@gmail.com wrote: Hm, I'm definitely getting different UIDs for apps signed with the same key: Sorry, I read things wrong. What's more interesting is that if the package trying to read preferences from another package and they don't have the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-31 Thread Chris
I already have an export to SD, import to whatever version design so even if I had to force them to install a new app it'd be easy. I'm mostly worried about what the conversion rate might be. My app is based on long-term data storage and analysis, so old users who simply can't upgrade (eg,

[android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-31 Thread Doug
On May 30, 7:09 pm, Nikolay Elenkov nikolay.elen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:54 AM, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote: In any case, I would agree that expecting them to synchronize between processes in real time is, um, unrealistic, but they definitely do work

[android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-31 Thread Doug
On May 30, 11:27 pm, Chris crehb...@gmail.com wrote: Most of my traction came from overseas.  Fragmentation is an issue (I really want to drop support for Android 1.x) and I'm guessing I'm going to be supporting a final free version forever. You can make it clear to your users that you will

Re: [android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-31 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Doug beafd...@gmail.com wrote: On May 30, 7:09 pm, Nikolay Elenkov nikolay.elen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:54 AM, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote: In any case, I would agree that expecting them to synchronize between processes

Re: [android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-30 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 2:54 PM, William Ferguson william.ferguson...@gmail.com wrote: You could offer an in-app purchase to upgrade users from your existing free app to whatever extra capability/content you believe they will pay for. That way you only have  a single app, single source base.

[android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-30 Thread Peter Webb
I have just made a paid version of my free app. The only chnage I made to my free version was I included a market link to my paid version. My ratings dropped immediately. I used to get 65% of my ratings as 5 star, immediately dropped to less than 50%. This was nowhere made up for by 5 start

Re: [android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-30 Thread TreKing
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Peter Webb r.peter.w...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know what you would do if you wanted to transfer (say) user preferences from the free to the paid, if that is your issue then you may need to do something clever ... Export to SD card, re-import from paid

[android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-30 Thread Kiet
Hi Chris; One way is to provide additional feature/function to the free app and then you can charge for the new version. This requires work but you have the advantage of having an existing user base. Sincerely, Kiet On May 29, 9:21 pm, Chris crehb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, So I started

[android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-30 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Hi Chris; One way is to provide additional feature/function to the free app and then you can charge for the new version. This requires work but you have the advantage of having an existing user base. Sincerely, Kiet No, you cannot. Once it's free, it's free forever (unless you use in- app

Re: [android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-30 Thread Mark Carter
I'm not sure, but isn't it possible to directly access the shared prefs of one app from another (by the same developer/publisher)? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-30 Thread String
Yes. That's why they're called shared preferences. String -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

[android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-30 Thread Doug
On May 30, 2:19 pm, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes. That's why they're called shared preferences. Um, I think they are shared SharedPreferences because there is one instance of a particular SharedPreferences object shared among all the components of an application. Also, be

[android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-30 Thread String
On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 12:45:00 AM UTC+1, Doug wrote: On May 30, 2:19 pm, String sterlin...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes. That's why they're called shared preferences. Um, I think they are shared SharedPreferences because there is one instance of a particular SharedPreferences object

Re: [android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-30 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:54 AM, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote: In any case, I would agree that expecting them to synchronize between processes in real time is, um, unrealistic, but they definitely do work for the simple case of one app being able to read the prefs which another

[android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-29 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
They will HAVE to download a new app. Each app is different and there is no way of making a previously free app paid. So you will need to change the package name and package name = app. Personally, I just appended a p after my non-paid app name to create the new package name. Coincidentally,

Re: [android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-29 Thread kaushik p
Hi guys , can you just mention any place where all the details regarding the app hosting on android market is available ? And can we host paid android apps on our website without anyones permission ?? On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: They will HAVE to

[android-developers] Re: Moving from free app to a paid model

2011-05-29 Thread William Ferguson
You could offer an in-app purchase to upgrade users from your existing free app to whatever extra capability/content you believe they will pay for. That way you only have a single app, single source base. On May 30, 2:21 pm, Chris crehb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, So I started working with