Android: how to distribute paid application when paid Google Play is not available in my country

Question

I\'d like to sell my Android application, but I live in Poland and in my country* Android Market supports only free apps (we cannot sell and we cannot buy too).

What

Answer 1

You could use one of the alternative third-party markets for Android applications. Wikipedia has a list of possibilities of which SlideMe looks the most promising.

SlideMe has website where you can post your application, a Market Application which users may run on their phones and their own forward locking (copy protection) implementation. They say they support international developers but I don't exactly how payments to Poland would work so you'd have to check that yourself.

I uploaded a free application to the Android Market and SlideMe at the same time. I've had 30 times more downloads from the Market than from SlideMe. So it may be worth proving a free trial version of your application on the official Market but redirecting people to SlideMe for the paid premium version.