android-lvl

I am about to release my first firsion of an android app. I was thinking about using android's licensing service (LVL) for my app. But now I am not sure if it wouldn't be better just not to use any licensing service. a) LVL can be cracked anyhow b) LVL causes some delay of my app What do you guys think ?! Do you have any experience with using / not using LVL ? Do I have any alternatives ?! Thanks a) LVL can be cracked anyhow LVL is definitely a piece of crap in front of sophisticated pirate/hacker, however, it does provide some basic protection on your paid application from being shared and

I need to use ANT with Android building process because at the end I need to create two versions of application (FULL & LITE). When I created new project with command-line tools it generates for me all necessary build files (build.xml, local.properties, build.properties and default.properties, oh and also proguard.cfg). My full version of app need a market licensing library (which is located on my ${sdk.dir}/extras/google/market_licensing/library. So in Eclipse I define where this library is and it works if I run my app from Eclipse. Now if I run ant script on my app ${my.project-home}$ ant

I currently have two versions of my app in the Android market, a paid one and a free one. But I want to integrate in-app billing into my free application, and charge customers on a subscription base, for a lower price than the current price of the paid app. But how should I handle this for existing customers? It seems unfair to let them pay again for use of the paid functionality, while they were the early adopters of my application. Ideally I implement something that will give the existing users access to the unlocked functionality in my free application. Any ideas of how to accomplish this?

I'm totally new to the Android Play store. I'm working on an app that is almost finished and ready to publish. But I notice that you can copy the apk file (after purchase) to another location (sd card for example) and install it on another device. That is something I want to avoid. My questions are: Does the Google Play store sign the apk file with some unique id before downloading? If is true, can I read/get this code from the apk? Is it possible to know the email-address of the user that purchase the app or can I access some other details of the user? Is it possible to get an unique detail

I have just imported an android project and when I am trying to run it it is giving me error on the following imports import com.google.android.vending.licensing.AESObfuscator; import com.google.android.vending.licensing.LicenseChecker; import com.google.android.vending.licensing.LicenseCheckerCallback; import com.google.android.vending.licensing.ServerManagedPolicy; Any help resolving this would be greatly appreciated. You may want to review the steps this link . It goes through the steps of adding it to your Android project, regardless of your IDE. Eclipse will work just fine. These steps