[android-developers] Re: Selling your apps section in Market help

2009-06-05 Thread Don
Hi Blake Did you ever find a recommended strategy for this ? I am facing the very same issues, but don't like the option of the intermediate step ? Regards Don On Feb 16, 4:21 pm, Blake B. bbuckle...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm not worried about the code migration - that's only a half-hour work

[android-developers] Re: Selling your apps section in Market help

2009-02-16 Thread Blake B.
Ok, maybe I missed this along the way (or heard comments of this and couldn't believe it to be true), but this statement seems clear in the Setting the price of applications section: If you have previously published an application for free, you cannot change it to have a price. This seems to

[android-developers] Re: Selling your apps section in Market help

2009-02-16 Thread Al Sutton
Developers could always add a couple of features and charge for the feature added version. Al. Blake B. wrote: Ok, maybe I missed this along the way (or heard comments of this and couldn't believe it to be true), but this statement seems clear in the Setting the price of applications

[android-developers] Re: Selling your apps section in Market help

2009-02-16 Thread Blake B.
Your interpretation would make more sense, but that doesn't seem to be the way it's being done. I don't have the option on my current app to change from free. When I unpublish it and attempt to Upload an application, I have the option to set a price, but the publish site won't allow me to

[android-developers] Re: Selling your apps section in Market help

2009-02-16 Thread Al Sutton
You may need to refactor your code to change the package name to something line com.blah.nonfree.App and rebuild your apk. It would seem to offer the quickest solution. Al. Blake B. wrote: Your interpretation would make more sense, but that doesn't seem to be the way it's being done. I

[android-developers] Re: Selling your apps section in Market help

2009-02-16 Thread Blake B.
I'm not worried about the code migration - that's only a half-hour work (max) with eclipse Subversion. I'm concerned about the user experience in transitioning their data to the new paid version. The user has data in user preferences and a sqlLite database that they will expect to be able to